Hello internet. My name is Blake, and for a little while, I had a crippling addiction to the Souls series. This addiction often manifested itself in strange ways. I'd have dreams where my roommate was one of those skeleton wheeled fuc...

 Look, Metroidvania's might just be my favourite genre of all time. Games like Super Metroid, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Metroid Prime, and Dark Souls litter my top 20. I guess I'm a sucker for games that heavily encourage explo...

  Metroid Prime Meets Quake... Sort of. The Above pic is from the indie game "In the Kingdom." An artstyle like that but a bit less minimalist would ideally be what I'm aiming for. So I have this idea about a game. It essential...

 So, the Wii-U Nintendo Switch was announced yesterday, and I have to admit, it does look kind of neat.  From a tech standpoint, a device that can plug into any screen and with that kind of versatility is fascinating, and thi...

Well, uh, this was supposed to be a weekly blog huh. Guess that didn’t happen. And I guess I’m not going to promise regularity from now on either. Anyway, I have new games for you to try! Powerslave EX Try if you like: Ser...

Hey guys! I'm back with a brand new thing I did a week ago. I knew writing Volume 1 in the title would come in handy! Anyway, whereas last week I just listed some random games, this week I thought I'd try a specific genre. Let me know ...

Here's the deal. You like games. I like games. You don't know what to play. I have suggestions. Three of them, to be precise. They're games that were either undeservedly panned by critics, or just flew under the radar for most people. ...

In many modern societies, the words "gender" and "sex" have become unfortunately synonymous despite distinct definitions. Sex denotes the anatomical difference between a male and a female, whereas gender is defined as the ro...

Video games are a steadily growing medium, with titles like Call of Duty, Halo, Fallout 4 and Grand Theft Auto eclipsing their target demographics and becoming worldwide phenomenons. By August of 2015, Grand Theft Auto 5 alone had sol...

Recently, I made a blog about Dark Souls' difficulty. It was an empty rant, aimed specifically at outlets like Gamespot who seem to think difficulty is the only thing Dark Souls is about. So let's get one thing straight: Dark Souls is...

 Dark Souls is my favourite game of all time, but to most journalists, it's nothing more than a masochistic masculinity test. "Oh, it's so difficult, aren't my balls so much more testicular than yours? I'm so good at gaming, loo...

I have a challenge for you readers at home: think of your favourite games of all time. Think of the games that changed your life, be that through emotional resonance, immersive qualities, or just sheer fun. Think o...

Are you in your mid 20's to late 30's? Was at least a month of your childhood consumed by a Final Fantasygame? Do you still have nightmares about the first time you encountered a Licker in Resident Evil 2? Do you still have ...

Usually, I'm the first person to tell nostalgia hounds how wrong they are. You know the ones. Those folks who think that their two million 2-D brawlers are somehow more diverse than our two million military shooters. The kind of peo...

There is obviously far too much positivity on the internet, so to counterbalance it, I thought I'd bring some bile and vitriol to the table. Some games are just terrible, and it's up to us as gamers to collectively shame the ...

You know who I hate? Gay people. They're sexist and they hate women. We should burn them. Straight people too. Are you aware that just by preferring one gender over the over you are discriminating against almost half of the population...

Hey, I made a remix of the track Dream of the Shore Near Another World. If you could, please watch it, like it, and comment? I'd like this to get out there and get some views. I'm sorry if this seems like tacky self promotion, but I don't s...

Hello, people of the internet! I'm Blake Turner, and today I am going to play Dark Souls in ways it clearly wasn't intended to be played. We're talking alternative builds here guys, and the first is one I'm lovingly referring to as "Fist Pu...

Ok, so the first article I've written for a proper gaming site is up. I'm quite proud of it, it's a rewrite of part 1 of my top 20 games of the year. Please read it, like it and/or comment on it, but especially like it, partly because it l...

Well, it's been a weird couple of years for the entertainment industry, hasn't it? After the video game industry collapsed in 2014 due to the astronomical costs of developing one level and the fact that Atari tried to make another E.T. adap...

Ok, this will only be a short blog, I promise. I am planning to do a seperate review of each campaigne in Resident Evil 6, but for now, I'm just going to note a few things. First of all, what the fuck is with the prologue? It takes an u...

Well, I'm finally getting around to part 2. For my destructoid readers, it's only been a couple of days since I posted the original blog, but for my 1-up readers? It's been about 2 months. I did start to write this ages ago, but I kept chan...

Human beings tend to have a morbid obsession with death, and it's evident in every part of our lives. It's our biggest fear, the reason for religion, the basis of all medical science, and our biggest source of entertainment. In movies an...

Procrastination is a fun thing. When I should be writing an essay about moral relativity, I instead opted to do a top 20 favorite games thing. And because I'm lazy, I've decided to split it into two parts, just so I can I can do the other h...

In todays games, female characters have all the personality of a brick. They have one purpose: To satisfy perverted young men. And that would be wholly appropriate if you were writing characters for Leisure Suit Larry. Unfortunately, we are...

I often disagree with gaming sites like this one. I don't often complain, because game reviewing is subjective, and the only time I have complained is if a game that is flawed in so many different was gets a 10... However, there are a lot ...

Fuck you IT staff, with your nine hour internet maintenance. Thanks to you I am in a state of unsufferable boredom, with very little to do. Which kind of disturbs me to be honest, because the internet being down should be a temporary setbac...

Due to being a lowly student with no source of income other than Australia's Tax money, I haven't had the money to buy any new games that I want. So I've been revisiting some older games and trying to finish other ones. Among these are: Mas...

A lot of my blogs on here are written to point out an issue, or to help procrastinate assignments and neglect the education I'm paying 15000 dollars for. Every so often however, I write something with one purpose: To piss off fanboys. This ...

Please note that I posted this on 1up a few days ago, so if anyone wants to accuse me of plagiarism, you can fuck off. Well, Guild Wars servers are currently full, and I'm lagging like a bitch. So time for some fun. I've decided my pet ha...