Author: Jean Snow

  • Tomodachi Life

    Boy am I having fun with this game. I still remember teasing a lot of my friends here who were excited for the Japanese edition when it came out last year, and this is what happened. So after seeing the super silly (and funny) trailer that Nintendo released when they announced that it would come…

  • Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball

    I got this when it first came out a couple of months ago, but just realized I never ended up mentioning it here. It’s an interesting little game for the 3DS – it’s a free download, and you buy baseball-themed mini-games inside, 10 in all. The really interesting part is that when it comes to…

  • Trine 2

    Of the new PS4 offerings through PS+ last week, this is the one I’ve played the least, but I was curious to see how it looked, and unsurprisingly, it looks great. I played the original Trine – on PS3 I think – and it’s a game I had fun with. I like platformers, and I…

  • War Thunder

    This is a free-to-play aerial combat (although I believe you can control tanks too, but I haven’t tried yet) sim that came out on PS4 this past week, and I was curious to take it out for a spin. Although graphically it’s fine, I was having some issues playing it. The flight controls aren’t so…

  • PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate

    We got lots of free goodies through PS+ last week, starting with PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate, a combo of the two games that have been released so far, with a fresh graphical paint job on PS4 (as far as I can tell, the Vita version features the same flat graphics from the originals, which I do…

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    What a fantastic film. No big surprise there, considering my love for all of Wes Anderson’s film, but I am happy to report that this is just as good as any of his other films. Beautifully framed, cast to perfection, music to enhance it all, there’s just not much to not like about it. By…

  • 300: Rise of an Empire

    Here’s why I wanted to watch this: Eva Green (no secret there, I’ll watch pretty much anything she’s in) and I do really dig action movies set in ancient times. I liked the original 300 – was a huge fan of Frank Miller’s book before that – and although I wasn’t particularly excited at the…

  • Halt and Catch Fire

    A show set in the 80s, with the dawn of personal computing as the setting? Holy shit, it’s as if a show creator read my mind, and created exactly the kind of show I’d love to watch. Think Mad Men, but with computers. The show debuted this past weekend, and I absolutely loved the pilot.…

  • Wind Waker HD

    I’d been wanting this ever since I got my Wii U in January, but being the cheap bastard that I am, was waiting for a deal. I finally picked it up through the Mario Kart 8 promotion (you can get a free copy of this, Pikmin 3, Wii U Party, or New Super Mario Bros.…

  • Mario Kart 8

    You’ve probably heard all of the praise for this game already (except maybe for the new “Battle Mode,” which is not liked by many, but that I haven’t tried yet). My first impression when I started playing it on the day it came out was that it felt “magical.” That’s the sensation you first feel…