The Book of the Shadows

Year in and year out there are a few dates that you tend to mark on the calendar. The obvious ones are holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries. Then there's tax day, just because you can't escape it. If you've got kids, or are a student yourself, you also mark off the start/end dates of school, and school holidays. Working down the list you then get to sports - start/end of regular season, playoffs, games you might attend, etc. For gamers and those interested in the gaming industry, June means one thing - E3. It is THE big event of the gaming industry each year. Every few years things get a little more interesting, because the big 3 of the gaming (Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft) industry introduce new hardware. Well, not always at one E3. Last year Nintendo started off the new generation of consoles by revealing the Wii U.... and it has barely gone anywhere. It's not all that much better than the Wii in terms of performance, but it is an improvement. They also gave ...

About a year ago I had a little bit of spending money and wanted to buy a game to kill some time on. I'd just gotten mostly through Bayonetta, which was a terrific game, and so I wanted a new game for my 360. I trolled about the web reading reviews of some games I'd heard about. Along the way I came across a game - BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. I didn't know what to make of the game right away. Just on presentation it looked amazing. The graphics were solid, they had some really well done, polished, cut-scenes with anime quality. The gameplay was good too. Make no mistake, it is a tough game. The combat system relies on a series of complex button combos, and the opponents are not the easiest you will find in a fighting game. There is a bit of novelty to this style of game. For those reading this who don't know the game's history, it started out as an arcade game. No, it's not an ancient relic from the 90s that got a gussied up re-make, it is a modern arcade ga...