Joshua Rivera's saved articles

What was that noise? Hm. Must be my imagination. Read more

**ghost voice** “oooooOOOOoooOOOoh, continue my work, Joshua.... OOOooooOOOOooooh” Read more

Thank you for sharing that link. I’m usually pretty well informed about what goes on in gaming, such is what my job calls for, but I’d somehow missed this. I’m asking the staff about it and seeing if we can cover it without simply being super-late to it. Read more

The Epic Game Store is the current cool thing to hate, in a similar way to Battlefront II on release or other similar games. Like those, it’s marred by a huge amount of misinformation and literally everything connected to the current object of the Two Minute Hate has to be attacked and taken in the worst possible… Read more

Well, I can tell you why... Read more

These are facts, and something I’ve dealt with for a long, long time. As for mourning, I feel like I’ve been doing that for ages too, but I can mark the beginning of my constant malaise with the Pulse shooting in Orlando. As you brought up here, it is quietly forgotten that the club was attacked during “Latino Night”.… Read more

Quisiera aprovechar el tema para llamar la atención sobre cómo ser jugador en Latinoamérica es un hobby más caro que en E.E.U.U., específicamente en cuanto al costo de las consolas y juegos (y en Brasil es mucho peor) Read more

Obligatory “Hell March” post for er’ry damn CnC article:

You should’ve named the captain Ben Wyatt, the Adam Scott that is unmatched at winning games! Read more

I would say the original and second Max Payne comes close in terms of the film noir grit and grime.

Also - Sleeping Dogs if you want a Hong Kong GTA game with pure body count, plot twists, and invincible protagonist. Read more

Man, these grey comments about workers not being able to handle the content of a game they signed on to make, way to miss the point. Exposure to material like this effects the human psyche negatively, blanket statement, end of story. Even if the extent of that damage is desensitization and is largely not at a… Read more

The glut of post-apocalyptic fiction in pop culture at large and video games in particular has led to a set of beliefs and tropes that have settled into the bones of these stories: A moral nihilism that posits compassion as weakness, that the ends justify the means, that there is a thin line protecting us from them… Read more