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Xbox One Reveal. Our (negative) Impressions.

AlienLion May. 21 Article, Featured, News and Seasonal Views (1678) 1 comment

So, the eagerly-anticipated ‘Xbox event’ has come and gone, and as always, it’s time for our impressions. Before I personally start, I would like to note that we do our impression pieces without taking into account any information that comes after, or in addition to, what was revealed at the actual event. This way, [...]

3 Innovations We Actually Want From ‘The Next Gen’

AlienLion May. 16 Article, Featured, News and Seasonal Views (1405) 6 comments

New consoles used to be easy: more polygons, more bits, stereo-er sound, what have you. Most of us had no idea what the fuck those terms even meant (I still don’t), but they made the technological progress somewhat quantifiable. We knew that the audio and the video were to get better, and we also [...]

Planescape’s Guido Henkel Talks Torment, His New Game and More!

AlienLion Mar. 19 Article, News and Seasonal Views (1459) 3 comments

Our very own Allen got his very first interview with Guido Henkel, the producer of the amazing Planescape: Torment, which Allen has covered for us before. Congratulations to Allen and massive thanks to Guido, from all of us, for taking the time. AL: Apart from being the face of Torment (sorry, I couldn’t resist), you were also the [...]

Impressions on PlayStation Meeting 2013

AlienLion Feb. 21 News and Seasonal Views (234) no comments

PlayStation Meeting 2013 has officially come and gone, delivering exactly what we all had expected and hoped for – the announcement of the PS4. Undoubtedly, you have already watched all the reveals so we won’t be doing a sentence-by-sentence here, instead, we’ll give you our take-aways. You’ll want to grab some nuts (or another snack) [...]

3 Things That Next Gen Consoles Should Enforce

AlienLion Jan. 26 Article, News and Seasonal Views (506) 1 comment

There are probably just two types of guys who would ask for stricter rules: the guy with a secret stash of unsettling private videos and the guy who raises his hand to remind teachers about homework (and it’s often the same guy). Nevertheless, I feel like I can make a case for it, when [...]

Our 6 Most Exciting Kickstarter Games

AlienLion Jan. 24 Article, Lists, News and Seasonal Views (651) no comments

Tim Schafer’s Kickstarter success was the gaming equivalent of what E Online considers to be year’s top ten biggest stories, right up there with the ‘Colorado Shooting’ and ‘Miley Cyrus Twit Pic’ (I wish this were a bad joke but do click on that link and scroll through). We all know that his game will [...]

3 Reasons Why We Hope Phantom Pain Is Not MGS

AlienLion Jan. 18 News and Seasonal Views (861) 1 comment

Looking back, it’s downright embarrassing that none of us, at AlienLion, managed to immediately connect the above Phantom Pain trailer to Metal Gear Solid, when it debuted on VGA X. Sure, someone half-heartedly pointed out the fact that the main dude’s mullet looked eerily similar to Snake’s, before getting hushed out of the room, [...]

Video Game Astrology: 2013 – The Year of the Snake

AlienLion Jan. 03 News and Seasonal Views (619) 1 comment

Snake image by Jimmy_Joe Happy New Year! The 2013 is finally upon us, along with a whole junk of potential bad omens. Indeed. For one, it will be the Chinese year of the black snake, and that has evil written all over it. Two, every Friday will be the 13th, as well as every single other day. [...]

The Potential Good and Bad of Valve’s Steam Box

AlienLion Dec. 13 News and Seasonal Views (820) 2 comments

If you are one of those fans who feel like Valve is on our side, you must get a sense of vindictive gratification in the fact that they are planning to release their own ‘console’ next year. I’ve got to give it to you: this generation, the existing console-makers have really stretched the limits of [...]

VGA 10: The Most Exciting/Disappointing Moment of The Year and Other Impressions

AlienLion Dec. 08 News and Seasonal Views (640) 3 comments

So VGA 10 have just ended and I feel like I deserve a fucking award for watching the stream to the end, despite having to suffer through the same fucking Jack Reacher/Dr.Pepper/Need for Speed/MMA commercial sequence over and fucking over again. What the fuck was the point of that?? While there, I will give [...]