Nerd's Eye View
2013
Profit-driven games far from consoling
Author: Will Westwater The new Play Station console hit the shelves Friday, and fans are lining up, ready to shell out money for the latest piece...
Arts & Entertainment
Harder levels equals more fun
Author: Will Westwater "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not...
2015
DisneyBounding brings Disney magic to the everyday
Author: Frida Gurewitz There's something about Disney that I’ve never been able to outgrow. Maybe it's the singing inanimate objects, maybe it's the magical lands or...
2013
A holiday buyer’s guide for a college budget
Author: Will Westwater The holidays are fast approaching and, as with all holiday releases, the older games get cheaper. Some of these games are better than...
2014
Embrace adventure in daily life
Author: Will Westwater "Believe in the fiction." Professor John Bouchard says this at least 20 times every class period of his Acting II course. When my...
2014
Get twitchy with it in revolutionary collective gaming experience
Author: Will Westwater What if 80,000 people played a video game, and they all shared one controller? Recently a user on Twitch.com, a website where users...
Arts & Entertainment
‘Halo: TMCC’ dismays fans with bugs
Author: Will Westwater I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. "Halo: The Master Chief Collection (TMCC)" was one of the games I anticipated most this holiday season,...
2014
New games brighten grim landscape
Author: Will Westwater The last home console generation was the first to be in HD and the new technology allowed for more realistic designs. This renovation...
Arts & Entertainment
Podcast finds humor in adulthood
Author: Will Westwater Out of all the media I consume, the most consistently enjoyable production has to be "The Comedy Button" podcast. Unscripted, hilarious, and definitely...
2014
Same gaming conference, new results
Author: Will Westwater Every year the Game Developers' Conference (GDC) gets more exciting, and this year was no exception. Last week in San Francisco, GDC revealed...
Arts & Entertainment
The social nature of gaming
Author: Will Westwater This winter break, video games allowed me to spend time with friends from all over the world. Gaming is inherently social; through multi-player...
2013
“The Last of Us” redefines gaming
Author: Will Westwater This summer I started playing "The Last of Us." It is possibly the best game I have played...ever. Developer Naughty Dog, famous for...
