Recent content by Dennis Scimeca

Just to be clear, I only felt a problem with parkour in the woods. Giving you feedback like that is tricky, because for all I know a lot more experience playing in the frontier would have taught me how best to utilize parkour there, but I doubt it ever would have been as free as the rooftop...

Assassin's Creed Liberation Hands On Preview Sneak around the bayou with the series' first female assassin. Read Full Article

Assassin's Creed III Hands On Preview Climbing trees, riding horses, and stringing up Redcoats in Colonial Boston. Read Full Article

That is an excellent point. On the game reviews panel I moderated at PAX Prime this year, the idea came up that innovation may be generally more important to critics than to the audience. If the only game you buy every year is the annual Call of Duty iteration than perhaps the sameness which is...

This would normally be the sort of comment one would follow up with examples, for instance other games you're familiar with that blend role playing games, tabletop miniature games, and card mechanic games. I'm sure we'd all love to see a list of all the games you've played that are accomplishing...

Blowing Away the Triple-A When heart and character trumps all. Read Full Article

Crossing the Line in Spec Ops Do you care if you?ve become a virtual monster? Read Full Article

Some recurring thoughts within the comments I?d like to respond to: This sort of statement requires proof to deserve entrance into the discussion. Your experience is not proof. Your friend?s experience is not proof. Hell, the idea of "proof" even becomes difficult inasmuch as the explanation...

This person gets what I was trying to say. :) This person gets it. This person does not. If you read my column this week and thought that either myself or The Escapist were in any way defending Hemingway?s comments you really need to go back and read the column again. I didn?t think...

You have missed the point entirely, if you're approaching this discussion with me from that sort of black and white perspective. You may want to take a look through my body of work and see all the writing I've done on feminist issues. It's generally not wise to assume that all men are on one...

Getting Furious Over "Girlfriend Mode" It?s worth pausing to consider what we?re after before we react. Read Full Article

Criticizing the idea of a military shooter being "realistic" is not snark. It's honest assessment that I've never heard any analyst or pundit, or gamer from the military disagree with. Having military advisers on a development project does not mean the mil-shooter is realistic, or an actual...

The Exhausting Violence of Max Payne 3 Max Payne 3 might be one of the most important games of this console generation. Read Full Article

Who, then, would be the potential audience for the Ouya if not the console gaming audience? Also... It's good to differentiate between the author of an article and the person they were talking to. :)

To everyone focusing on the RAM issue...you're completely ignoring context, here. Is the Wii U a seventh- or eight-generation console? What would the Ouya, then, be considered if and when it makes it to market? By saying "the Ouya will have more RAM than the current-generation," you're...