VGX Winners and Predictions Tally
After about three and a half hours of live streaming, the Spike Video Game Awards Show has come to a close. Despite having a lengthy amount of time to announce winners, only a handful of categories were presented were ...
The Most Awkward Moments of VGX 2013
The VGX 2013 “Award Show” has been one of the most awkward and disappointing gaming show awards since…forever. I thought the Spike Video Game awards were bad, but VGX just took it to another level of entertain...
VGX Hopes and Predictions
Just like music and movies, I believe video games are a form of art and like other art forms, are deserving of awards and praise as well. While I am a gamer, I make this statement because I feel video games fulfill the requir...
Steam and Origin Alternatives: Game Key Stores
Game Key Stores: Gaming on a Budget Sometimes when the rent needs paying and the bills are due, you just need a good game to take your mind off of it all. What’s that wallet? The Steam sale has gutted you? Darn it. Yeah S...
Battlefield 4 Afterthoughts: What Went Wrong?
Still Not Ready for Deployment To call the launch of Battlefield 4 “rough” is like describing a plane ride through a hurricane as bumpy; the words don’t do the situation justice. Sadly, even a little more th...
Top 10 Kick-Ass Female Fighting Game Characters
Welcome to SpawnFirst’s monthly Top 10 feature. This month, we’re featuring the top 10 female fighting game characters. In a genre that is predominantly male (much like most of the gaming world anyway), it’s o...
Xbox One Voice Command Cheat Sheet
If you’re anything like me, you’re probably having a lot of trouble with the Kinect understanding your commands. Now don’t get me wrong, most of what I ask of the Xbox One, it executes my requests amazingly we...
ESEA Gaming Network Used to Mine BitCoins
Counter-Strike is an absolute steal of a game for $9.99. If you love first person shooters and can give up eating out or skip out on a movie one day, you will absolutely love the bargain that is Counter-Strike. However, once yo...
The Waiting Game
Like many, if not most, people, I view the new console launches with mixed feelings. I feel excitement at the prospect of a whole new generation of gaming hardware, jubilation at the promise of shiny new toys and, on a more per...
Did Microsoft Know About the Faulty Xbox One Optical Drive?
Microsoft is stuck in quite the situation with the launch of the Xbox One. Amid the “green screens of deathâ€, consoles getting bricked, alleged game DRM reports, missing pixels in gameplay, and a seemingly large number of d...
The Great Crash Bandicoot Mystery – UPDATE
There have been two new developments to this story. However, there haven’t been any developments for a month: Update #1:Â On November 23, an Activision PR rep told Game Informer that they still own the rights to Crash Ban...
Blizzard Exclusive Interview: Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
Hey, Spawners — we here at SF scored an exclusive interview with Anne-Sophie Lefebvre, a software engineer for Blizzard’s upcoming Diablo III expansion, Reaper of Souls.  (Which looks, objectively, awesome, and w...
PlayStation 4 Poll: Bring Back the Classics
Bring Back the PlayStation Classics! If you’re anything like me, you probably remember a lot of amazing titles on the first PlayStation and PlayStation 2 that never quite made it onto the PlayStation 3. Colony Wars, Onimusha,...
Interview with Starbreeze Studios: Payday 2
After playing and reviewing Payday 2, which was an awesome experience, I was given the honor to write up a few questions for the hard-working people over at Starbreeze Studios. David Goldfarb, Game Director at Overkill Software...
Josef Fares Talks Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother. – Astrid Alauda Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons released earlier this year to nearly universal praise from c...
