Recently there’s been controversy about the upcoming Spiderman on PS4 and whether or not its had a graphical downgrade since its E3 2017 presentation. I give my thoughts on this supposed insane, crazy, weird, insane…did I say insane yet? Okay, insane situation.
Category: Video
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Rhyming a review of Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
Welcome to games over, the same show you’ve seen on other channels, reviewing some utter barrel bottom scum games, but I maintain a different version, a simpler concern for getting my thoughts out quick as the credits tick up, no time for deep thinking but this time I’m winking this eye because I’m trying to rhyme the entire time? Why? Just trying to find that absurd line between review channel mimicry and a gimmick we, you and me, can agree is worth a few views, a share perhaps, recommending what you’ve seen here, maybe fueled by beer, to between three and thirteen people even if you perceive me as an a-hole. Which is easy. This may be annoying. Sorry. (more…)
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Red Dead Redemption Can Be Connected to Drop Dead Fred? – 6 Degrees of Pixelation
Welcome to Burning Books. I’m Caleb, and I want to help you love video games even more.
This is 6 Degrees of Pixelation, the show that brings the social theory 6 degrees of separation to video games
Today I’m showing you the connections between two seemingly unrelated entities. The 1991 movie Drop Dead Fred about a young girl’s brash and annoying invisible childhood friend coming back to her in adulthood and Red Dead Redemption, the Rockstar Games open world cowboy shoot em and trample em extravaganza. And with Red Dead Redemption 2 just around the corner, it makes sense to take in all the Red Dead goodness you can. (more…)
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Playing video games in Chicago with The Cartridge Club! Video game podcasts, Canadian Snacks, and Airport Security
I just returned from ChiCartridgeCon, a few days long gathering of friends from the Cartridge Club community. In this video I talk about my experience, about hanging out with video game loving people, about recording video game podcasts live, and about how you can find gamers in unexpected places, even in the airport security line. (more…)
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A Brand New Video Game Magazine?
Welcome to Burning Books. I’m Caleb, and I want to help you love video games even more. Sometimes I do that by reviewing books about video games. Today is one of those sometimes, because I’m taking a look at the first issue of A Profound Waste of Time. (more…)
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Horizon Zero Dawn Makes Stealth Fun (a video game review)
Welcome to Burning Books. I’m Caleb, and I want to help you love video games even more. Sometimes I do that with game reviews, which is what you’re here for today. This is Game’s Over, a series where I give a few thoughts on a game as soon as possible after playing it. This video is short, quickly thrown together, and certainly rides emotional high or low of whatever game I just finished. If you are new to the channel, I offer plenty of longer, more thought-out videos, so subscribe to stay updated.
The credits are rolling on Horizon Zero Dawn. Yes, I’m late to the party. This game was released about a year and a half ago, but being late to a game doesn’t make the experience or the game any less amazing. And Horizon Zero Dawn is amazing. (more…)
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A Few Books About Ninjas From My Childhood
In my previous video I explored a concept I call ludo anthropomorphic dissonance, which aims to explain the tension between the realism video game players want from their enemy characters and the lack of realism players need from their enemy characters. I used an example from the Playstation 1 game Tenchu Stealth Assassins. Enemy guards in this game are inept. They can be lured from their post by a ball of rice that appears out of nowhere. But more importantly, they don’t question the rice ball’s origin. Real people, when seeing a strange object fly through the sky would question the object’s origin, not its destination. (more…)