PAX East 2016 erupted into the Seaport District of Boston, MA on April 22 and served as a beacon for all nerds, gamers, otaku, and megafans of the North East. The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center was filled to the brim with a colorful array of characters and video game companies. It was loud,...

Of all the video game series to get the big film treatment, I would never think that Ratchet & Clank could be one of them. I started with this series back in 2002 on the PS2 when I was given the original game as a gift. I didn’t know what to think of Ratchet...

This has been a bit of a pipe-dream for Brendan and Mike for a long time. During Episode 3 of Bit-Chomp, Mike and Brendan started a tangential conversation about the Final Fantasy series; and what good FF conversation doesn’t discuss the amazing soundtracks by Nobuo Uematsu. This is a proto-type show for a project...

It’s time for Bit-Chomp Episode 3! Mike and Brendan talk about Brendan’s experience with Strider and how the retro-style game isn’t going anywhere. They also discuss the importance of a new, turn-based JRPG  and talk about I Am Setsuna. Brendan and Mike then decide to converse about Mike’s Top 10 Games of All Time!...

Does it feel like 1984 in here? Well if not then it definitely feels like 1987. Can anyone wrap their heads around how the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been able to make quite the explosive return to pop culture? I know that we now live in a rather regurgitive pop-culture society, where we’ve...

If you take a look at my list of 100 greatest games, you’ll find a healthy selection of classic JRPGs. As a product of the late 1980s and 1990s I’ve grown accustomed to what I played as a child. Older JRPGs were smaller games, peaceful games, games that took place in little, distant worlds....

It’s Bit-Chomp Episode 2, a podcast about VIDEO GAMES! Brendan and Mike spend this week talking about the first days of Pokemon and how it completely took over the world. They then delve a little deeper and talk about the popularity of the MetroidVania genre. This obviously leads them to talk about the NX...

I’ve got a problem, Chompers, I’ve become addicted to a certain genre. That genre is a hybrid of two of the most celebrated series in videogame history, Metroid and Castlevania. For the past decade or so, this mash-up has been named MetroidVania. I understand it’s not the best of names, but it is a...

Ok everyone…before we go any further, makes sure you take a read of all my other posts so you can get the top 99 games. You can find the lists here   Let’s chat a second before we get into #1. I wanted to take a second to just thank you all for taking...

3. Final Fantasy VI (1994) We can say many things about Final Fantasy today: It’s tired, it’s outdated, it needs to end. It’s sad to see what has happened to this once great series. There was a time when Final Fantasy was synonymous with excellence and it looks like Square Enix may have lost...