LevelSave began in March of 2011 as the passion project of founders Barry Villatoro, Randy Lehmkul, and soon after, former Editor-in-Chief Chris Lock. Over the years and with the help of SO MANY awesome people, LevelSave saw tremendous growth and opportunity. Groundbreaking industry insight and intense investigative efforts led us to become a known name to those in games journalism. In that time the team changed considerably. Growing in size and gaining contributors...
Update: I’m wrong. Well, coincidences are fun! That was fun. Cliff Bleszinski replied to our tweet with a fairly concrete denial. @LevelSave No — Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) May 23, 2017 Original story below… I spent most of my day today reading about the Seven Great Wonders of the World. Of course, you can’t browse Wikiepedia without visiting half of the pages that branch off your article. Mythology, myths, laws, and other things I wanted...
I was going through a bit of a change: a new job had me driving an hour each way for training. This wasn’t the worst thing in the world – early mornings were simply made a bit earlier, and late nights a bit later. It’s worth noting this was at Wegmans, a high end grocery store with a cafe inside. Right around this time I was first introduced to Soylent. Soylent, for the uninitiated, is the meal-in-a-bottle food of the future straight out of Silicon Valley...
So, let’s rap. If I were a cool uncle (I’m an uncle, just not a cool one) I’d pull a chair up and sit on it backwards. Let’s talk about how uncle is maybe not the best person. In my last post I went on a tirade, a weird one. If social media has taught me one thing, it’s that you put your best foot forward on the internet. It’s a highlight reel of your life, most times. This… this is not that. This series for me is not a highlight...
Merry Holiday of your choice, nondescript and easily offended gray blobs of the internet. Here’s hoping it gave you joy in a way that brought no pain to others. Except for the jerks who DDoS’d PSN and XBL. You guys just made everyone’s lives a little more miserable. Why? In the past few weeks I’ve done a few things, one of them has been continuing to read. In my long sojourn with The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People I came across something that stood...
One. Month. It has been one month since I started cutting games back to one day a week, and good things are going down! So let’s start this update with something I am very proud of, something I’ve always wanted to do. With my new found time I was able to go ring the bell for the Salvation Army. I live in a very poor area and so I did not expect to see much come out of my community. I was wrong. In the one hour I rang for (wanted to do more, couldn’t) I saw...
Hello again internet residents! I’ve conquered my first two weeks of this experiment. As I write this I am struck with the same thought that plagued me when I started. “You’re not completely giving up gaming, since you can play once a week. This seems like cheating. This doesn’t seem hard enough.” Well shut up negative me because this is in fact harder than you thought. Addiction. That’s how I would describe my relationship with gaming. I...
Hello! My name is Chris Lock and you’re joining me for a personal experiment. I am going to give up games (mostly) for an entire year, just to see what happens. But first a little background as to why I am doing this. A few years ago I started writing for LevelSave, just for fun. The site grew and shrank, as sites do, but kept chugging along all the same. Because of my work I was able to do some stuff I hadn’t thought possible. Namely to interview developers, get...
Maybe you’ve recently read (and if not go do so) Austin’s and Taryn’s posts about how video games or gaming related things got them through some tough times. Gears of War 3 helped Austin push through the pain of appendicitis and Podcast Beyond and the gaming community in general is helping Taryn to create a new life for herself. I’m here to add to that conversation. To get right to it, my parents divorced when I was younger, when I was about nine...
Where do I even begin with this weekend? I don’t really know where to start so I’ll just take it from the top. I was practically bouncing and literally buzzing with excitement as I counted down each of the last 7 days leading up to Beyond (BEYOND!) 300 on Twitter. That excitement turned into distress and turmoil when I found out my plane was delayed an hour and a half. Determined to make the show, I persevered and kept a positive attitude. I thought out the plan...
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