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2016’s Best Competitive FPS Titles Must Change to Reach Their Full Potential

January 23, 2017 By Liam Conlon Leave a Comment

Rainbow Six Siege

Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch and Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege were massively successful in their respective spheres during 2016, but they face comfortable stagnation in competitive play unless their developers set their sights on a different way to balance in 2017. These team-based, character-focused first-person shooters will have to broaden their horizons past the characters that make […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: BattlEye, Blizzard, Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, esports, Games, Idris Elba, Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege

Slicing Up Eyeballs: Abject in Gaming

December 8, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Abject in Gaming

Horror is a genre that, despite the fear it can induce, remains popular across mediums. From the scary stories of childhood, to the many films that get pumped out of Hollywood year on year, horror is nothing if not durable. It took until 1980, however, for the question of why it’s popular to be addressed […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Binding of Isaac, bloodborne, dark souls, Edmund McMillen, F.E.A.R, Games, Rule of Rose, Silent Hill, Un Chien Andalou, video games

Loser City on the Web: Hennum Debuts at Paste, Russell at Raw Paw and Some Compliments

February 9, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

The Sculptor

Us Loser City folk sometimes take trips outside the city limits, so this week we’re rounding up some of the places you might have seen Loser City citizens. The big news is that Shea Hennum made his debut over at Paste with a review of Scott McCloud’s new work The Sculptor, which Shea really didn’t like. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: AV Club, comics, Gameological Society, Games, jake muncy, Lars Russell, Raw Paw, Scott McCloud, Shea Hennum, The Sculptor, Unfinished Swan, WindWaker, Zainab Akhtar, Zelda

Mario Maximalism: Super Mario 3D World and What Mario Should Learn from Kanye West

January 22, 2015 By Jake Muncy Leave a Comment

Bowser Car

A couple months ago, I bought a Wii U. It’s the first Nintendo home console I’ve owned since roughly 2006, when I ill-advisedly sold my Gamecube to, uh, I don’t remember, buy an Xbox or a pipe bomb or something. I’ve missed my Gamecube a bit ever since: there’s something uniquely delightful about a good […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: game review, Games, jake muncy, kanye west, nintendo, Review, super mario 3d world, video games, wii u

Going Farther Afield: Fourteen Thoughts on Bungies Past and Present

September 23, 2014 By Jake Muncy Leave a Comment

Destiny Marathon Bungie

 1. When I first play the final release of Destiny, I’m at a friend’s house. I take hold of his character and play a single multiplayer match that he already had queued up. After that, I want to go to the moon. I’m fairly convinced that the moon is Destiny’s best design accomplishment, the point […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Bungie, Destiny, Games, Marathon

Save Points: Wasted Days (Dark Souls 2)

September 15, 2014 By Jake Muncy Leave a Comment

The Emerald Herald, Dark Souls 2

Jake Muncy has basically grown up as a gamer. He’s of a generation where video games have always existed, and as he has matured, so have they. Which is why we’re giving him the space to do Save Points, a column where he revisits his gaming history and works through the significance of the video games that […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Bandai Namco Games, Dark Souls 2, From Software, Games, Save Points, video games

Game Over, Man: #Gamergate, 4Chan, and the Power of Trolls

September 8, 2014 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

GamerGate

So this has been a surreal weekend in my corner of the world. If you have any contact with the part of reality that a video game writer lives in (on Twitter, mostly, let’s be honest), you’ve heard of “#Gamergate,” the movement debate conflagration that has exploded over the past couple of weeks and paralyzed […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: editorial, GamerGate, Games, Zoe Quinn

Who Will Survive in America: One Nerd’s Journey Into the World of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood

August 6, 2014 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Kim Kardashian Hollywood

I feel like there are a few ways to respond to the inane in the world. Smart people usually respond with anger and baffled disgust—why does this exist? Why do people care? I’ve never thought that was a great reaction, though. I prefer to embrace the inane. I can’t guarantee that it makes the world […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: apps, celebrity, Games, Kim Kardashian Hollywood

Save Points: Glory and Gore (Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes)

July 23, 2014 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes

Jake Muncy has basically grown up as a gamer. He’s of a generation where video games have always existed, and as he has matured, so have they. Which is why we’re giving him the space to do Save Points, a column where he revisits his gaming history and works through the significance of the video games that […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Big Boss, Games, Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid, Save Points, Solid Snake

Bonus Content: Interview with Charles Webb

July 15, 2014 By LoserCityBoss 1 Comment

Charles Webb

We spoke with Charles Webb, a pop culture critic for outlets as diverse as Paste, MTV Geek and his own FreakSugar (as well as his peer Rowan Kaiser) for a piece on games journalism at large, and we felt it was an interesting discussion, which is why we’ve included it as bonus content here. Jake (Loser […]

Filed Under: Interviews, News Tagged With: Charles Webb, Criticism, FreakSugar, Games, Games Journalism, Paste

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