Category Archive: Gaming: A Legitimate Hobby

Game Review: ‘The Cave’ (First Impression)

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Developer: Double-Fine Well back in the bronze era of video game history there was a bunch of chaps working at Lucasfilm (later Lucasarts) who made a name for the company creating smart, funny… Continue reading

Funk’s Top 5 Games of 2012

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Let’s make sure everyone knows where we stand with this Top 5. This website is more of a hobby than a job. In fact, this gets done in addition to a job. Plus… Continue reading

10 Most Annoying Types of Video Game Levels

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Not every game that gets released needs to be a totally original to be worth playing. Sometimes we want something familiar to unwind, or something that builds on an established formula. Nintendo have… Continue reading

Top 10 Most F#%@ed Up Pokemon

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I’ve always been at the periphery of the Pokemon phenomenon having been in high school when it first broke into Western culture and therefore way too cool for such childish nonsense. Since then… Continue reading

Top 10 Video Game Themes that Enhance the Player Experience

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Video games have had a long and rich history and like cinema it uses a combination audio and visual elements to create entertainment. The quality of the graphics has always been a selling… Continue reading

Ten Games Australia Has Banned/Censored For Stupid Reasons

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Video games have come a long way since their inception some thirty years ago. Although there were a number of adult themed games in the Atari era the industry found it’s market among… Continue reading

10 Reasons Why ‘Sleeping Dogs’ Made Me Forget About ‘GTA V’

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Grand Theft Auto not only provided the blueprint for the modern sandbox crime game but consistently sets the bar for the genre. GTA IV was one of the most highly anticipated game of… Continue reading

Evolution Of Gaming (Or What Replaying ‘Crash Bandicoot’ Has Taught Me)

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Ladies & Gentlemen, I am a gamer. I don’t not hesitate to call myself as such, I believe I have earned the title, I’ve been gaming for 14 years and I will continue… Continue reading

Another 10 Games That Should be Considered Art

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In a massive step for the credibility of the industry the Museum of Modern Art in New York has followed up the Smithsonian Exhibit on video games by acquiring fourteen titles that will… Continue reading

Game Review: ‘The Walking Dead’ Complete Game

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Recently Telltale games released the fifth and the final installment in their episodic point-n-click game series based on the comic series The Walking Dead. Riding on the coat-tails of the smash-hit television series… Continue reading