Watch live video from smashpad on TwitchTV Due to unfortunate scheduling conflicts, SmashPad Streamkend did not happen this weekend, but we will do a special New Year’s Eve stream featuring Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. If you tuned into the XBLA Favorites stream last week, you saw a peak into my new post-1.9 update world as [...]

Watch live video from smashpad on TwitchTV Following up last weekend’s 2012 PSN Favorites edition of SmashPad Streamkend, I will be showing off my favorite XBLA games of 2012 this weekend to celebrate the great year of gaming that is rapidly coming to an end. Like PSN, Xbox Live Arcade had a number of great [...]

Watch live video from smashpad on TwitchTV This week on SmashPad Streamkend, we’re nearing the end of the year and it’s time to start reflecting on the games we enjoyed to put into some sort of list-type thing. Before we get to that point, I’m planning on streaming a number of my favorite PSN games [...]

It’s a bit surreal, but Sony has existed as a video game developer and publisher for almost 20 years now. With beloved franchises such as PaRappa the Rapper, Ratchet & Clank, Uncharted, and many more, the debate goes on as to which games and characters are the most memorable. To put an end to the [...]

The PlayStation brand was known to be a haven for many RPG fans, especially with its former exclusivity of popular IPs like Final Fantasy. Unfortunately, the cliché stories, long cutscenes, and repetitive gameplay have since made Japanese RPGs almost unplayable this generation, and they’ve become more scarce as a result.  But there’s always a diamond [...]

Watch live video from smashpad on TwitchTV So this week brings up an interesting challenge for SmashPad Streamkend with major releases shrinking as the holidays are upon us, which means that I have to think a little harder to figure out what games to stream each weekend. For this week, however, we will be checking [...]

Scribblenauts and Super Scribblenauts on the Nintendo DS were both games that allowed players to creatively think up different ways of solving simple puzzles. While the games weren’t completely open-ended, players could progress through the games however they wanted to, and that’s where the series gets its charm. The third entry in the series, Scribblenauts [...]

Nintendo Land was first met with puzzled reactions not only when Nintendo unveiled the game at E3, but also made it a headlining feature, this summer. All people knew was that Nintendo Land was going to be what Wii Sports ended up being for the Wii, a true testament for what the console can do [...]