With the final countdown beginning and hordes of eager players awaiting their chance to take their chosen "first" through the randomized hellscapes of Diablo 3, anxious waiting has taken hold of grown folks eager to win back some nostalgia from the past. Nostalgia in and of itself is a curious feeling, rather like the smell of sausages on the grill, in that the anticipation is better than the real experience.

A lot of new titles have been brutally criticized over the past few years (not necessarily unfairly criticized, but perhaps with the wrong motivations) for not staying true or somehow being unfaithful to the standards set forth by their distant counterparts. New entries in long running series are the prime... [Read More]

It would be a disservice to anyone who has chuckled or curiously pondered at the humble name of my semi-annual ramblings if I didn't fall to my knees in utter prostration as the granddaddy of all click fatigue inflicting games prepared to storm onto the gaming scene with a third (fourth... but more on that soon) iteration and what could be one of the most highly anticipated games of 2012.

Diablo started as an extension of the popular style of fantasy gaming at the time. In pre-alpha builds, the folks at blizzard envisioned a turn based game based on movement and tactical choice. It wasn't until one developer turned off the between turn pauses on a whim that the foundations of the insanely successful action RPG was born. ... [Read More]