The Berger Bits

My Kickstarter-funded Ouya just arrived today. Sadly, thanks to two back-to-back videography projects, I won’t have time to really play with this little unit for a while, possibly even closer to its primary release day.  But maybe I’ll get lucky and find some time between projects. You can expect my own review as soon as [...]

I planned on having an article for each day at PAX, as shown by my previous article that ended with “Day 1”. The realities of doing such a thing were outweighed by the fact that Saturday night is always a late night at PAX East, thanks to many of us from the Destructoid community closing [...]

For those who are not in the know, PAX East is the biggest gaming convention (both video and board games) on the east coast. It’s the sister convention to PAX Prime, which is held in Seattle, and the newest addition, PAX Australia. All of the PAX conventions are the brain-children of the on-line comic Penny [...]

The gamer in me can’t SQUEEEEEE like a schoolgirl loudly enough.  Actually, this should be our cake for our 20th wedding anniversary next month.  Any woman who can put up with me for that long deserves a cake like this.  And when I showed her this picture, she loudly exclaimed “That’s awesome!” Yeah, I love [...]

Android gaming is exploding. The plethora of Tegra-based tablets and multi-core phones that can produce console-quality graphics have made the demand for games on Android skyrocket. The most notable entry into Android gaming is the Ouya gaming console. The Kickstarter for the Ouya was one of the most successful Kickstarter projects ever, bringing in $8.5 [...]

[NOTE: Many of the dings that I originally gave this game were corrected after this article was posted. I hope to give the game a fresh play-through in the near future to update those parts that were changed.  --JB] Approximately 13 years have passed since the 1999 release of Freespace 2, which is considered to [...]

This month has been absolutely dreadful for being a gamer.  Look at the number of decent games that have been released within a three-week span: Batman: Arkham City, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Skyrim, Saints Row 3, and even LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7.  (Hey, don’t knock it! Those LEGO games are actually a refreshing change of [...]

If you’re like me, you’re a gamer who plays a lot of different games regularly. In many ways I still prefer to have a physical disc for my games because I don’t trust the cloud completely. Believing that cloud services or your Internet connection will always be available is unrealistic. But Steam has made it [...]

I had a very long diatribe all written up about why the decision by the Supreme Court of the U.S. to strike down California’s far-reaching video game law was the right decision to make.  This broad law, had it not been knocked down, had potential repercussions that could have impacted forms of entertainment far beyond [...]

Major gaming outlets fight to get their reviews published on the day of a game’s release and often can’t play a game to its entirety, particularly for RPGs or sandbox games. The “No Rush” Gamer is what I hope to be a regular series of articles about older games that are now out of the [...]