Now that most of the info for Marvel VS Capcom 3 is out in the open, I’d like to take the time to address the numerous fans that are so angry about this game that they are “canceling their pre-order.” First of all, I sincerely doubt that anyone who says they are canceling their pre-order [...]

It has been a while since I posted a Game Over blog here on 30Ninjas. Why? Well news post E3 has been taking up a lot of our time. However, it is E3 itself that leads me to post this post, as it all came from a conversation I had while waiting in line to [...]

Go to Google right now and search for “Super Mario Bros. Speed Runs”. Go ahead. Do it. What’s the shortest speed run you can find? I can find one that beats the whole game in five minutes. OK, admittedly that’s using the warp pipes. So what about a 100% run. I saw one that completed [...]

As a gamer I have tried to simply ignore Roger Ebert’s commentary about how video games cannot be art. I obviously disagree, however I am obviously biased. There have been plenty of responses, most of which are along the lines of “you haven’t played game X” but those responses seem to miss a key point. [...]

This weekend, one of my good gaming buddies explained to me why he wouldn’t be purchasing Starcraft 2. It went something like: “Warcraft III was such a depressing experience for me. It felt like, no matter how hard I tried I would just get torn apart by someone way better than me on battle.net. I [...]

Ugh … I’m bored. Why you may ask? Well, I’m a video game reviewer and, quite frankly there aren’t any video games to review. The Wii isn’t getting anything until Monster Hunter Tri on the 20th, and then Trauma Team and Super Mario Galaxy on the latter half of May. The Xbox will be getting Alan Wake around the same time. The PS3 … let’s not even talk about the PS3.

Let’s face it, as much as we all try to be mature in the world of video games, there are certain indulgent behaviors we all love to fall back on. The console wars are a product of one of these indulgent behaviors. While there is no particular reason why we can’t all sit back and [...]

For all of you Final Fantasy XIII haters out there who think that the game is too linear, that it doesn’t have enough characters to control, and that the game is like a movie with numbers. What were you expecting?!

I have two friends. One loves Team Fortress 2. The other hates it. Friend A loves TF2 because of how deep the gameplay is. He praises the game for making classes that play very differently from each other, loves the extra depth added through item collection and crafting, and is amazed by the plethora of [...]

Well we have been through three posts of bitching, moaning, and overall scattered ranting about the relationship between pro and casual gamers, but what does it all mean? Did we learn anything? Did these articles amount to anything other than giving my fingers a workout? Well, let’s look over the facts. What Is a Pro [...]

It probably seems as if a lot of my “Why Pro Gamers Are Assholes” series is nothing more than bitching at the fact that I can’t find other people to play games with me, and it is. Though the internet is letting people stay connected across long distances at light speed, would you believe that [...]

Do you want to know what is one of the most insulting things you could say to a pro gamer? “I have better things to do than learn to be good at video games.” We also would have accepted, “I could be that good if I practiced as much as he did” and any other [...]

(For the purposes of this study, I will be using the term pro gamer, to refer to anyone who plays games competitively, much like a sport, and casual gamer to refer to … well … basically everyone else. I do not mean to imply that every pro gamer is making money off their trade, nor [...]

I still remember one of my first experiences with fighting games. I was young, and on vacation with my parents. I walked into an arcade, stepped up to a Street Fighter II cabinet, and promptly wasted 5 dollars on getting my face stomped into the ground 20 times by someone who was much better and [...]