A Newbie’s Guide to Free-to-Play Games
Free-to-play (F2P) games have all the attention grabbing it needs in its title alone. “Free to play†is enough to spark the interest of any gamer because, let’s face it, we love buying games but sometimes we want somethin...
Dragon Con 2013: Best of Video Game Cosplay (So Far)
I and my laconic but charming cameraman (my brother, Edward) set ourselves a task: find the very best of video game cosplay at Dragon Con 2013. Â Many came, few were chosen.* Check them out here. ELIZABETH AND BOOKER, BI...
SpawnStaff’s August Playlist
We’re nearing the end of summer, and coincidentally, the end of the “late summer game drought” as well. Pretty soon, we’ll be strolling our way into autumn, with the cooler weather and the shorter days p...
Where Have All the Characters Gone?
Good or evil. Hero or villain. Paragon or renegade. Savior or conqueror. In the past few years, RPGs almost exclusively have involved a choice-making system. The level of choices and how those choices effect the story of the ...
The Future of Games in the Digital Age
A new generation of consoles and games can be found on the horizon and with them the hopes of better games and new innovations with them. Of course, the start of a new generation isn’t without its obstacles, the Xbox On...
The Amazon Console May Be Dead on Arrival
On August 8, news spread of a new console in development by the online retail company Amazon. The new console is supposedly an Android-based console in which consumers can buy and download games through Amazon’s digital...
The Battle Between Gameplay and Story
Hello there, beautiful readers! This is BrowQuirk back again to serve you guys some brain food that might provoke some more thought while you’re smashing away through all those games you kids play these days (insert ̵...
SFQA: The Game That Made Me a Gamer
Aloha, Spawners– here we ago again, another entry in the SFQA, in which we answer hard-hitting and not-so-hard-hitting questions about games. Â Tell us how you feel in the comments below! The Game That Made Me a Gamer Bri...
A Message for People Who Play Video Games: Stop Being Dumb
On July 23, David Vonderhaar, the design director for Treyarch, received death threats and other disturbing messages via Twitter after tweeting out details of a Call of Duty: Black Ops II patch that included some minor tweaks t...
Hero Of The Week: Nathan Drake
Nathan Drake Voice Actor: Nolan North Series: Uncharted Age: Unknown Debut: Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune We’re starting up a brand new feature here at SpawnFirst called the Hero of the Week, where we bring you a different...
Zombie Games Reanimated
I still remember the old days when a few friends and I used to religiously play Call of Duty (and more to the point, Call of Duty: Zombies) all night long until it was time to go to school again; it absorbed our lives. Many a t...
Xbox One: Changing Policies for the Worse
The console wars have been going for many years now. Previously, archenemies Nintendo and Sega were the two colossal companies competing with each other. Now, this battle has been replaced with the frenetic, amusing and ugly wa...
The Art of Games
Hey guys’n’gals! It’s BrowQuirk here, and I’m going to talk about one of the stranger problems in the games industry, and probably the hardest to solve. The question, of course, is whether or not video games are...
NoFriendo for Nintendo
Nintendo, as we all know, has been having some ups and downs lately (possibly more downs than ups). The 3DS is doing majestically well as Nintendo announces that Pokémon X/Y pre-orders have passed 260,000 in Japan alone!  Tha...
The Trouble with Clementine: Choice in Games (An Exploration)
Telltale Games did something incredibly right when they put together last year’s The Walking Dead. It probably could have been a disaster: an existing and hugely popular intellectual property (though Telltale has often show...
