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- Jan 15, 2019
- 5 min
Game Night Review: Camp Grizzly
So…who wants to get brutally murdered at summer camp tonight? This game night finds us taking a look at Ameritrash Games' Camp Grizzly, a game that takes its inspiration from the 80s slasher genre, especially the Friday the 13th franchise. It begs the question, if you obey the rules; don’t drink, don’t smoke and don’t fool around…will you make it out alive? If our playthrough was any indication…probably not. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. First, let’s go over the bas
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SMR
- Sep 6, 2018
- 4 min
Game Night Review: 5 Minute Dungeon
Fantasy has been ruined for me. And I’m very quick to let anyone know that…especially if you’re dumb enough to bring anything with dragons or dungeons to my gaming table. You see, back when I was in my formative nerd years, yes, I was introduced to Dungeons and Dragons, and yes, I enjoyed it…for a time. What killed it…and the entire fantasy genre…for me was that it became a game not so much about the stories or the adventures…but a game as to who could buy the most recent b
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SMR
- Aug 25, 2018
- 4 min
Game Night Review: Ticket To Ride
When it comes to games…board games especially…I’m a theme guy (as you may have noticed). I need that to hook me it. And if you’ve spent any time on this site, my themes are likely pretty obvious: superheroes, sci-fi, horror and of course all the licensed properties associated therein. One thing absolutely no one would assume? Trains. Now, I’ve known people who dig trains…and they were all elderly and are kinda dead now. And with an interest in sci-fi, it’s pretty safe t
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SMR
- Aug 9, 2018
- 4 min
Game Night Review: King of Tokyo
Like any review here, let’s start with some story time. [NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! – Ed.] Recently I was invited to a game night hosted by people I didn’t know. One side of me was like ‘YES! Great! I have all these board games I’ve been buying because I think they look neat and now I actually have people to play them with!’ but the other side of me panicked, ‘What if they’re not as nerdy as me? What if the game I pick is too complicated?’ and so on. Well, first off, I needn’t have w
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SMR
- Apr 24, 2018
- 5 min
Free Pizza Video Game Review - Naughty Bear [XBox 360]
What does it say about our world…the fact that a game like Naughty Bear even exists? For some, it will mean a degradation of morality, the glorification of violent behavior and will likely serve as a prime example as to how video games are responsible for all the ills present in today’s society. For me? It means that it’s a damn good time to be alive! The plot behind Naughty Bear is rather simple: Naughty Bear is an outcast on Perfection Island, home to all manner of cute te
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SMR
- Apr 22, 2018
- 3 min
Free Pizza Video Game Review - Godzilla (2014) [PS4]
It’s plodding. The tutorial doesn’t really serve to be much help as sometimes abilities just come and go or buttons do something that you were never shown or tipped off to. It resembles none of its predecessors, save for what I’ve heard about the Japan-only Dreamcast game. And, for some reason, I always felt that I was playing the game wrong…like there were things I wasn’t doing right or that there were moves that are possible within the interface that I just had no idea h
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SMR
- Apr 12, 2018
- 3 min
Free Pizza Video Game Review - Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair
What? Did you think I was done with the Earth Defense Force games? Get down on the ground and give me 20, maggot! You’re never done with the EDF! And the only time you might come close is if you find yourself as little bits in the mandibles of a giant ant or if we finally manage to kick those aliens off this planet so hard that every single generation of those insect bastards that follows will be born with an unending pain in their thorax…DO YOU GET ME?!? [Maaaaaaybe you m
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SMR
- Mar 13, 2018
- 3 min
Free Pizza Video Game Review - Earth Defense Force 2025
Now that I’m back to playing the games in the right order, we finally come to Earth Defense Force 2025. The bugs have been gone for 7 years, but now, they’re back. And the EDF is ready…or so they think. But as an enlisted man, was I ready? What about you as a review reader? We’re about to find out as we press start on Earth Defense Force 2025! Having played all three games (EDF 2017, EDF Insect Armageddon and now EDF 2025) in rapid succession, it’s impossible NOT to noti
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SMR
- Mar 10, 2018
- 4 min
Free Pizza Video Game Review - Earth Defense Force 2017
As you can tell from our last review, yes, I’m an enlisted man now. Who’d’ve thought that the Earth Defense Force was accepting slightly overweight 40 year olds? We’re back and this time we’re going back in time…to the distant year of 2017…as we take a look at the first game in the modern EDF games, Earth Defense Force 2017. This one’s an Xbox 360 exclusive…but I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t show up on a PlayStation system at some point, as the Vita has already seen
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SMR
- Mar 7, 2018
- 6 min
Free Pizza Video Game Review - Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
Early in the history of the website, we set out to have a section on video games. Given that our last video game review was back in 2015, well, I think we can all see the magnitude of that epic fail. See, the pitfall of game reviews is that the review needs to have the time to go through the game in its entirety…looking for gems and flaws. But who among us in our 30s and 40s has the damn time to go through an entire game anymore? Maybe it’s kids, maybe it’s a bullshit job…h
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SMR
- Dec 4, 2015
- 4 min
Video Game Review - Halo 5: Guardians
Master Chief has gone rogue. Or, at least, that’s what Microsoft wants you to believe about Halo 5. And, strictly speaking, they’re technically right. Master Chief does indeed disobey orders in order to attempt to rescue Cortana from the Forerunner technology she now finds herself a part of. The question is, does it count as ‘going rogue’ when those giving the orders are insufferable douchebags??? The flaw with Halo 5 is very similar to the movie adaptation of World War Z
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SMR
- Oct 13, 2015
- 7 min
Video Game Review - Transformers: Devastation
Thank you Platinum Games. You brought me back to my Xbox One after Batman Arkham Knight pushed me away. But also, thank you for pulling the Transformers video game franchise out of its downward spiral. A brief history lesson: Activision’s Transformers games mostly fell in two camps, movie tie-in games ranging from meh to suck and games based on a “Unified” G1-inspired continuity which were generally accepted with positive feedback ranging from good to awesome. Their most re
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SMR
- Sep 27, 2015
- 11 min
Game Review - WizKids' Dice Masters
Remember how I was extolling the joys of the current wave of Deck-Building games? How you didn’t have to hunt for powerful cards…expansion pack after expansion pack…box after box? WizKids’ Dice Masters game has forced me to rebut my own point.
[Great, like there aren’t enough voices in here. – Ed.] Let’s start this story back in the 2000s. Running from 2004 to 2009, Upper Deck released a Trading Card Game (TCG) called Vs. System. Unlike the current wave of Deck-Builders,
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SMR
- Mar 31, 2015
- 5 min
Game Review: Crisis Expansions 1 and 2 for the DC Deck Building Game
Crisis. Noun. A stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; turning point. A condition of instability or danger, as in social, economic, political or international affairs, leading to a decisive change. Those of us that read DC Comics can add a third definition: 3. Shit just got real. And so it has...as Cryptozoic, at the time of this writing, has released two Crisis expansion packs to go with thei
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SMR
- Mar 24, 2015
- 5 min
Game Review - Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
First off, I guess I have to admit I’m doing this backwards…but not by much. You see, even though Upper Deck’s Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game came out first, I bought it at the same time as Cryptozoic’s DC Comics Deck Building Game. And while I hope I don’t fall into a compare and contrast style of review here…well, just given the long-standing competitive nature of the two largest publishers of superhero comics…I’m sure it’s bound to happen. That being said, even t
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SMR
- Mar 4, 2015
- 5 min
Retro Game Review - Superman (NES)
There are certain facts in life: death, taxes, a collectible drought lasting a few months followed by an unending, expensive onslaught of must-have toy after must-have toy…and that any Superman video game (thus far) will range from meh to suck. Many like to point back to the very first Superman game ever released, back on the Atari 2600 released in 1978. But come on…that’s really not fair. That’s like saying “Maaaan 2-year-old baby, you suck because you can’t do a quadrupl
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SMR
- Jan 27, 2015
- 8 min
Video Game System Review - Hyperkin's Retron 5
It was the biggest pain in the ass getting this set up. I feel like I have to get that out of the way right off the bat. But it was soooo SOOOOOOOOO worth it! When you do a search on the Google for Hyperkin’s Retron 5, you’ll come across many things, positive reviews, negative reviews, complaints, praises, controversy on the emulators used and so on and so forth. I’m here to tell you the story in the guise of a review. This story will have its dark moments, but it has its
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SMR
- Oct 22, 2014
- 5 min
Video Game Review - Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
It had to come to an end, didn’t it? You see, we were on such a good run. Sure, the video games associated with each of the movies, Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon ran the gamut from “meh” to “suck”. But we got spoiled. War for Cybertron gave us the Transformers game we’d all been waiting for and Fall of Cybertron expanded on that by giving us the chance to summon strikes from Metroplex, play as a combiner and rampage as Grimlock. But on top of th
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SMR
- Mar 8, 2014
- 5 min
Review: DC Comics Deck-Building Game by Cryptozoic
Let’s go all the way back to the beginning. Magic: The Gathering. Like any good young nerd, I was introduced to it back when it first came out, back when I was in high school, by a friend of my older brother. Heh, in some ways, looking back at it, I’d almost say he was my gateway nerd. Anyway, while I enjoyed the game, well, the fantasy settings turned me off to it. But that wasn’t his fault…that was the fault of my own friends and their many, MANY Dungeons and Dragons pissin
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