A new Half-Life game came out on Monday – and I didn't realize it until Tuesday. I'm not sure which part of that sentence would have been harder for me to believe just a few months ago. A decade and a half later, Half-Life 2 rem...

Since the SNES Classic was announced, there's been a lot of speculation about the possibility of Nintendo also releasing an "N64 Classic" next year. I've been doubtful of that for a number of reasons -- the limited third-party lineup, ...

It helped define a platform and an era of gaming. It found new ways to innovate in the face of hardware limitations by smartly using its controlled camera. It was rough in some aspects of its gameplay design, but ultimately helped infl...

On Thursday, Nintendo finally revealed their next console: the Nintendo Switch, formerly known as the NX. The timing was less than ideal, going up against the first trailers for Read Dead 3 and the final Wolverine movie, but the respon...

In the weeks leading up to E3, rumors swirled about potential hardware revisions for the PS4 and XB1. Reception from myself and others was mixed, to say the least. The idea of a "slim" redesign was nothing new, but a more powerful revi...

As I've gotten older, the time I'm willing to dedicate to gaming has continued to shrink. There was a point when I'd regularly comment on sites like Dtoid, read strategy guides and walkthroughs, grind through games on the hardest diffi...

To call the WiiU a commercial disappointment would be the understatement of this generation. After 3+ years, the system has barely moved 12M units, 1/4 of which have come from the shrinking Japanese market. Nintendo financials have improved...

I don't fear change. There are times when game design needs to move forward, and the end result pushes the industry to innovate in a meaningful way. Then there's the flip side of change: the homogenization of game design, the change for the...

Leading up to the announcement of the next Xbox and Playstation, I don't believe most people expected either console to be backward compatible. BC on 360 required Microsoft to create an emulation profile for each Original Xbox title, and th...

Like I do every year, I sat down last week and watched each of the E3 press conferences. Putting aside the usual batch of awkward moments, missteps, and botched announcements, I think a lot of people were more up on the show this year ...

First off: hello! For those who might have recognized the username, no I'm not "coming back" to Dtoid beyond the occasional post or upvote in the comments (hold your tears, please). But I do admit: I have missed the blogging, and to be...

On Sunday I threw up a new post in the community blogs; partly as a response to Holmes' article about the term "gamer", and partially in response to the controversy and ensuing internet shitstorm surrounding independent game developer ...

Like a lot of Gen Xers and early Millennials who were into games and technology, I grew up on the receiving end of some bullying for my interests. Some people got it worse than others. Walking into high school at six feet tall helped me dod...

As it stands, the Vita's probably only getting two types of games from here on out: things that will make a profit with just the Japanese market, and ports of PSN and Steam indie games developed first elsewhere. As much as Sony seems dead s...

When Microsoft originally announced the Xbox One, the backlash to the online check-in requirement was enormous. Not only were the people who don't have access to fast, reliable, cap-free broadband upset, but so was a wide swath of the commu...

In my last blog post, I took a look at what the next DS might be and what I'd like to see from it. With this post, I'm gonna take a look at the next Wii and where Nintendo should go with that. This is very much a continuation of the DS post...

It may feel a bit premature to be thinking about the ninth generation of video game hardware with the PS4 and XB1 release coming just last year. We seem to forget, though, that the eighth generation started in early 2011 with the release of...

Unless I get some inkling to make another blog for the third parties just a couple days before E3 starts, this will likely be my last prediction/wish list post for 2014. For those who haven't had a chance to check it out, Part 1 of my Ninte...

First off, I apologize for how belated this post is. I was hoping to have this out about a week ago, but I moved into a new apartment and completely underestimated how much of my time and energy it would take. That, and I just got my intern...

So my plan for tonight was to do a predictions/wish list blog post for Nintendo's showing at E3. Given the recent community challenge on the front page, I figured I'd hold off on the Nintendo one for now and instead address Microsoft instea...

With E3 coming up, I've been wanting to get some of my predictions for the big show out there. Really, this is more of a wish list than anything else, but I am trying to keep it somewhat probable. If you haven't already read it, Part 1 of m...

E3 is right around the corner, and with all these fake "leaks" sounding like they're just a bunch of wish lists, I figured I might as well make one of my own. Since Sony's conference is the one I'm most interested in, he's my somewhat reali...

While I don't think the Vita should try and match the 3DS in the boxed retail space, I don't think there's any denying that the system could use a little more in the way of "AAA" titles. While 2013 was good to the Vita with releases like Sl...

If you haven't seen it by now, Nintendo has updated their financial forecasts for fiscal 2014 (04/01/13 to 03/31/14). Things are... well they're not looking good. At the beginning of last year, expecting to sell 9M WiiUs after a relatively ...

So before you revoke my gamer card, let me explain. In the Summer of 1998, I took a trip with my mom to North Carolina. I was on vacation from school, the man she had been dating for a while had family in NC, so she decided that we'd spend ...