Wed-NES-day: Donkey Kong Country
Wild and Wacky WedNESday, Schmamers! I haven’t played an 8-bit game in years. Fuck, I’ve barely even played many 8-bit games. So why am I handling WedNESday? Because we’re a well-run organization, that’s why. Complete with dart boards and feces-flinging monkeys. T ...
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Box art for the newest Call of Duty game has been supposedly leaked today. Well, it’s good to know that some things never really change. Maybe with the next cycle of consoles imminent, Activision could see fit to let Call of Duty die the death it so rightly deser ...
Who Cares About Phil Fish?
Kotaku has an article up trying to get people to stop hating on Fez creator Phil Fish. But even from the get go the article is a non-starter with the headline starting “Don’t you have anything better to do…?” This is the kind of argument people u ...
Twos-Day: A Loss
I’m supposed to say something. I’m usually a pretty yappy fella. I’m on two podcasts, after all. And for all rights and purposes I am a professional writer. Language has always been the unending source of paint for the canvas that is my existence. So when I find ...
Arkham Origins Character Reveal
Another rogue in Batman’s gallery has been revealed for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origin –The Black Mask. Casual Batman fans may be familiar with the mostly campy nature of Batman’s enemies. They joke, they riddle, they seduce. Very few would actuall ...
Shmupvania, Thank You God
Castlevania and Shmups are two of my favorite things in the world. And someone (finally!) decided to put the two together in a game called A.N.N.E. If I died right now, I think I’d be happy just knowing such a game existed. What’s more, it actually looks rea ...
World’s Largest Game of Pong
Only a true Schmamer would look at a skyscraper and think, “I can play pong on that.” Enter Frank Lee, co-founder of Drexel University’s Game Design Program. Lee and his genius idea launched Philly Tech Week with a 29-story arcade classic; played on Th ...
More Corpses to Party With
If there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I have an unnatural obsession with horror games. Thankfully, the video game industry has seen fit to make my dreams come true in 2013. Some of the most exciting horror news I’ve gotten all year c ...
The Most Influential Band You’ve Never Heard
To call Yellow Magic Orchestra a seminal influence on video game music— and electronic music in general— would be a profound understatement. During the late 1970s and early 80s, Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuuichi Sakamoto defined the entire musical palate ...
Schmame Over Episode 5.3: Better With Friends
Corey spends time alone talking about video games! Join him and his soothingly quiet voice as he coaxs you into a sleep so fine and deep that when you wake up with him standing over you stabbing you ten thousand times yelling “BETTER WITH FRIENDS BETTER WITH FRIEN ...
We Should All Play Monster Hunter
No, really. The Dallas Morning News has a good write up about what makes Monster Hunter so great and why we should be playing more of it. And while they have a lot of great points, there’s some things they don’t touch on that really elevates this experience ...
JJPE Episode Two: Top 5 Best Solo Musical Artists & Top 5 Biggest F***ing Douchebags in Fiction
Episode Two: Top 5 Best Solo Musical Artists & Top 5 Biggest F***ing Douchebags in Fiction Horrible disease. Awful tragedies. Excellent impressions. HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY, JAMES. TopFive37@gmail JJPE.tumblr.com JimmyJew.libsyn.com ITUNES FACEBOOK! twitter.com/JimmyJew ...