Watch live video from smashpad on TwitchTV With what may be one of the dumbest puns I’ve ever come up with, the new SmashPad Streamkend feature will begin this weekend as we play Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault on Saturday, December 1 at 2 PM EST. When the stream begins, the video will be [...]

It has been 16 years since Nintendo has had a new installment of the legendary Mario franchise ready for one of its console launches. To find the last such instance, you’re going to need to go all the way back to September of 1996 and Super Mario 64. Since then, the company’s history has played [...]

Four episodes into The Walking Dead and things finally are coming to an end, so to speak.  Episode 5: No Time Left picks up right where the last chapter left off, and the intensity levels skyrocket through the roof.  No Time Left is hands down the most chilling and emotionally charged episode yet, and fans [...]

  It is hard to say goodbye to Ezio and Altair, characters who over the last five years have given us exciting locations to traverse in,  interesting characters to meet, and above all else the most dynamic gaming experience in years.  The mechanics and story elements drawn out through those first four games were remarkable [...]

Watch live video from smashpad on TwitchTV If you’ve been following the @SmashPad Twitter account, you may have seen that we’ve been doing a couple of tests of our new live streaming set-up for games that is working well now. The first test on Twitch.tv went poorly as I was a bit too ambitious for [...]

Early promotions for Halo 3 teased that the world was going to end. Well, it didn’t. After a brief hiatus, another set of Spartans with Halo: Reach, and a changing of the developmental guard, Master Chief and Cortana make their much anticipated return in Halo 4. But is it worthwhile? The game is clearly going [...]