Video game companies are STILL being hacked
UPDATE 6/15: In the past few days, the servers for Leage of Legends, Minecraft, Eve Online, and the gaming website The Escapist. At this point, there have still been no reasons given, no legal action...
View ArticleWheelin’ and Dealin': The Life of an Internet Penny Pincher
Well, here at STA Show HQ, our staff members aren’t exactly wiping our asses with 50 dollar bills… or one dollar bills, for that matter. We’re always on the lookout for the best deals on games, and...
View ArticleMadden Warfare 11 Highlights
Cris and Adam decided that since football season was about to start again, they’d play a collection of classic football games leading all the way up to the newly released Madden NFL 12. These videos...
View ArticleBeta vs. Demo
I was hoping that we would get a demo of Need for Speed: The Run before Battlefield 3 came out on 10/25/11 and low and behold it’s here. I was hoping for this because there was so much bullshit...
View ArticleWhy video games are more than just games
There are moments in your life as a gamer that are “milestones,” to say that you remember them for a special moment in time. You remember where you were, and when it was. As a gamer I thought I would...
View ArticleFemale video game leads
A common criticism of the video game industry is the lack of female lead characters in games. A typical rebuttal includes mentions of well-endowed female lead characters like Lara Croft. The argument...
View ArticleGame(s) of the Year 2011
After weeks of back-and-forth discussions, we finally decided we weren’t going to be able to settle on just one game of the year this year. There were just TOO many options. The conclusion we came to...
View ArticleStanTheHokieFan’s MAGFest diary
This January I decided, along with the STAShow crew, to take the plunge and attend a gaming festival for the first time. We decided on MAGFest, the Music and Gaming Festival, which is a four day event...
View ArticleCris and Adam interview Amil Parra, designer of RetroBlazer
Recently, Adam and Cris had some time to talk about RetroBlazer with the game’s creator, Amil Parra. He talked about how the game has progressed, other games he’d like to make, and what plans he has...
View ArticlePortal 2 & Skyrim meet via Steam Workshop
In one of the greatest gaming crossovers EVER, Cris’s 2011 Game of the Year, Skyrim and my 2011 Game of the Year, Portal 2 have joined forces on the PC. Skrim recently added Steam Workshop...
View ArticleSaturday Morning RPG developer interview
You’ve heard plenty of stuff from us about the upcoming Mighty Rabbit Studios release Saturday Morning RPG. Now, hear it from the developers themselves! We talk about how the game got started, what...
View ArticleA Dream of Life Interview
I recently had the chance to speak with Jesse Etzler regarding a new project of his, “A Dream of Life”. He’s an independent video game developer from Minnesota who has been developing games for over 9...
View ArticleDo we really need new consoles?
At this stage in the life of video game development, the industry has created a perfect storm. For the first time in decades we’re seeing a console generation that will last longer than the typical...
View ArticleAccount security and you
Quite some time ago, I wrote a piece (viewable HERE) exploring the ever-growing threat of having your accounts compromised, and how it tied into the gaming industry. In today’s world of “always on”...
View ArticleIs free-to-play the way to go?
More and more games are moving to the free-to-play model as their preferred distribution method, but what effect is it having on players and developers? Such big name MMO games as City of Heroes, DC...
View Article30 Day Video Game Challenge
Fellow SS staffer Andy had started doing this photo challenge thing on Facebook not long ago. I’m not much a Facebook person, and I already torture you guys with enough of my writing and rambling, so I...
View ArticleThe 14 Games That Made Me A Gamer
So it’s pretty clear that pretty much everyone on the STAShow crew, and most of our friends and listeners are big fans of video games, but how did we get that way? At some point, each of us had to have...
View ArticleDo Sequels Hurt The Gaming Industry?
In the film industry, sequels and remakes aren’t uncommon occurances. In most cases, aside from series like James Bond or Godzilla, it’s rare to see more than three or four films about a particular...
View ArticleWhat I want… in a zombie survival game
While my ideal zombie game (so far) might be on its way in the form of “State of Decay,” or more importantly, its possible MMO follow-up, here are a few things I’d like to see in my perfect zombie...
View ArticleStartSelect.net’s 25 hottest game girls
Every other video game site has done their lists of hot game girls, so it was pretty much mandatory for us to do it too. However, we saw a problem with most of the other lists out there. About 80...
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