When BioShock was released in 2007, it was an amazingly beautiful game on various levels. Graphically, the underwater city of Rapture dazzled with its art deco style. More importantly, the story was fantastic to play through. BioShock 2 was a fine effort and was certainly enjoyable, but it didn’t quite match up to its predecessor. [...]

Watch live video from smashpad on www.twitch.tv This week’s featured game on SmashPad Streamkend is the console version of Terraria, which has come to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this week for $14.99 on each service. The console version of Terraria features the requisite controller support, improved crafting and inventory menus, a new boss [...]

If you had to name an immensely popular entertainment property off the top of your head, The Walking Dead could easily come to mind. The comic series began steamrolling its way into mainstream media when the now-critically acclaimed television series debuted in 2010. Gamers were treated to a fantastic gaming experience last year, when Telltale [...]

Parting is such sweet sorrow, and after getting to know Commander Shepard and company for more than five years now it will be hard to say goodbye. Citadel, BioWare’s last confirmed DLC for Mass Effect 3, is a really nice parting gift for all avid Mass Effect fans. With tons of goodies to obtain, a [...]

This weekend on SmashPad Streamkend, we will be checking out another classic of this generation in Civilization Revolution. Revolution brought the acclaimed Civilization series to the consoles as Firaxis was challenged with figuring out how to adapt the turn-based strategy series to a controller and TV screen. What console players got was an extremely addictive [...]

When we have off weeks with no big release to play, we will usually be playing a classic from this generation on SmashPad Streamkend to celebrate the great games we’ve seen on the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii as the next-generation of consoles is taking over. Valkyria Chronicles got the spotlight two weeks ago and [...]

  At first, 2012 seemed like a disappointing year because there wasn’t that one game that blew everybody away and won all of the awards. However, when I look through all the games myself and the rest of our staff enjoyed the most this past year, 2012 was actually a great year for gaming thank to the [...]

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 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 [...]