Barry Villatoro

Twitter : @IamWeapon | Former citizen of Azeroth and Atreia | Favorite fighting game - DefJam: Fight for New York | Favorite RPG - FF6 | MMA | Sushi | ATV's |
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New Gears of War Projects on the Horizon?

Apparently we have more Gears of War coming our way. Recently Rod Fergusson tweeted that, unfortunately, there will be no collection centered around Marcus Fenix coming anytime soon. Although, he did mention that in fact Black Tusk is working on other Gears of War projects, plural. I love the passion, but there’s no Marcus Fenix Collection. We ARE working on other exciting Gears projects. I’ll see you at E3! — Rod Fergusson (@GearsViking) March 19, 2015 Kind of...

Features • Guide

Tips for Becoming the Shadow of Mordor

Getting slaughtered in the harsh land of Mordor? Yeah, I was having a hard time too. A few moments of letting my guard down, led to the rapid promotion of a couple of captains. The world around me seemed to be growing at a pace I couldn’t keep up with. Outnumbered and under-powered, I decided to restart my journey and pay close attention to the world around, to learn to be the predator and not the prey. Here are some of the ways that I accomplished that. Learn to hunt...

Podcasts • This Game Is Broken

Podcast: This Game Is Broken – Episode 24

We were gone forever and now we’re back already, with another episode! Chris and I are back and as jolly as ever, talking about Shadow of Mordor, Warframe, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Infamous: Second Son and of course, Pokemon. If you like the show, review us on iTunes! Intro music: 8bit Chiptune Medley by Fantomenk Outro music:(8-bit) Feliz Navidad (Re by BallinFatty

Podcasts • This Game Is Broken

Podcast: This Game is Broken – Episode 23

It’s been a looong while since we’ve done an episode of TGiB. But, we finally did one!… In October, and I finally got around to finish editing it. Not my fault, I had a baby and stuff. Anyways it’s here. Chris and I talk about Pokemon, the PT demo, Warframe, and some other things. Hopefully we’ll be back to doing this regularly and getting them out on time as well! If you like the show, review us on iTunes! Intro music is 8-bit Introduction...

E3 2014 • Editorials • Features • News

Microsoft E3 Press Conference: Throwing Down the Gauntlet

The new generation of consoles is here and Sony has jumped out to an early lead. It’s clear that Microsoft has been feeling the pressure as sweeping changes were rolled out for Xbox Live and Kinect is going to be taken out of the box to lower the price to $399.99. I was looking forward to what Microsoft had in store for us in their E3 press conference and I was not disappointed. Phil Spencer came out at the beginning, with a short scripted thank you to the legion of Xbox...

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Second Titanfall Patch Nerfs Gooser, Players Rejoice

The second Titanfall patch went live today with a ton of fixes, updates and most importantly, the nerfing of the Gooser regen requirement. In case you don’t know, you must complete specific challenges in order to regen in Titanfall (which is much like prestige in CoD). One of the challenges for the level 5 regen was called Gooser. You were expected to kill 50 ejecting pilots in order to proceed to the next gen. This is a difficult task and the community let Respawn...

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Video of Canceled Darth Maul Game

Game Informer reported in it’s May issue, that a Batman Arkham Asylum style game featuring Darth Maul was previously in the works, but no more. Apparently Red Fly Games was the developer working on the project. Reportedly the game was to be called Damage, and tie-in to the Clone Wars tv series. Of course a link to a YouTube video featuring, which is supposedly footage from the Dath Maul game, appeared on Reddit. I have not been able to confirm whether this is actual...

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Gamers Still Not Crazy for Digital Games

It appears as if gamers are still not ready to go fully digital. While many welcome the idea, there seems to be something keeping many from going the full digital route. From a report through the NPD, it seems that gamers, even when preferring digital, still buy a physical copy of a game. Gamers that prefer digital games over physical, still play far more physical copies of games over digital. Also, the increase from players that prefer digital, to actually playing more...

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Visceral Games has a new addition, Amy Henning

In a post on EA.com, Steve Papoutsis announced that Amy Hennig has now joined Visceral Games, makers of the Dead Space franchise. As Steve said in the post, she’s most likely working on a new Star Wars game; “Over the last few weeks, Amy and I have spent a lot of time talking about what her first project would be. There are a lot of different directions we could have gone, but I could sense that what really excited her about this opportunity (because let’s...