2016 - Hey Poor Player

Pokémon Go holiday event continues

Celebrate the New Year with Pichu and Co.! Pokémon Go‘s holiday offerings goes on into 2017 with special offerings courtesy of Niantic, as announced on the game’s official site. Starting today through January 3rd, the game’s developer will offer Bronze, Silver and Gold boxes, which contain Incenses, Lure Modules, Lucky…

Second Opinion: Galactic Battlegrounds Is The Best RTS Of All Time

So, Who Talks First. Do You Talk First? This is not a series about games you haven’t heard of. This is a series about games EVERYONE has heard of. Games that everyone has an opinion on, regardless of whether they’ve played them or not. Games whose actual qualities have…

Top 7 Tools For Enhancing Steam

Full Steam ahead! Love it or hate it, the fact of the matter is that Steam is the de facto standard when it comes to PC gaming. The practical and moral aspects of DRM is a debate for another day, but as it stands, Steam can be very useful…

8 Games We Can’t Wait To Play In January

The world may be going to shit, but these 8 games will help numb the pain in January 2017. While 2016 was an awful year to be a celebrity or cultural icon, it was a pretty damn good year for video games. Still, with 2017 just around the bend, we’d…

Double Dragon IV Coming To PS4 & PC Next Month

The Brothers Lee return next month in Double Dragon IV. Arc System Works today announced that Double Dragon IV will slugging its way onto the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 4 and Steam on January 29th and 30th in North America respectively. Key team members involved in the 1987…

Painkiller: Redemption Review (Late To The Game) (PC)

It almost killed the franchise, but it’s a guilty pleasure for some Goodness, what happened to the Painkiller franchise? Once the darling of back-to-basics FPS design, the brand has steadily evolved into something of a joke in the industry. We keep getting standalone mods every few years, with each one…