Will Skylanders Swap Force be a Holiday Hit?

For those who may not know, Skylanders is big business.  This console game is centered around action figures that you buy and sit on a USB portal which reads a chip in the action figure and makes the character appear in game.  Each character has a little bit of memory so that it stores the characters level and gear on the character itself as well.  Activision has made over $1 billion dollars with the Skylanders … Read more

The Most Expensive Video Games in History

I was contacted by Graphs.net who makes Infographics for websites and businesses and they wanted to showcase one of their latest Infographics about the Most Expensive Video Games in history.  I found it interesting and wanted to share it with my readers, I knew that GTA V had a budget of over $200 million but stacked up against Hollywood films it is amazing just how much this game cost to produce and release to the … Read more

October Contest: Win the Video Game of Your Choice

That’s right this is a video game contest not giveaway this time, as part of testing the new Gleam.io platform I decided to offer my readers a contest instead of a giveaway.  A contest means that the winner will be the person who collects the most entries, it will not be a random draw and Gleam.io will collect all of the entries.  Make sure you leverage the refer a friend entry option which is your … Read more

First Person Shooters and Simulator Sickness

One of the things that have made video gaming difficult for me is that with many shooter games like Halo, Call of Duty, etc. I get very sick. So much so that I start to sweat, get dizzy and sometimes throw up. I really hate it, because some of the games my kids play look like fun. I have thought about taking pills to combat the motion sickness, but even the non-drowsy ones make me … Read more

Grand Theft Auto V Review

Does Rockstar Games have what it takes to make a great game even better? Being a gamer there is always those special two or three game that I look forward to year after year. Some of which tend to deliver the same content as year’s prior and other’s that I cannot bear to even give my hard earned money to just end up seeming like last year’s model with a few tweaks here and there. … Read more

Guild Wars 2 Molten Alliance Pick No Longer Available

A few weeks back during the Anniversary sale on the Black Lion Trading Company I did spend some gems on a Molten Alliance Pick which is permanent and lets you harvest ore which is a fantastic item to have for your character if you do a lot of mining and want to stock up on Mithril, Iron, Copper or other ores. Unfortunately I found out after I had bought it that the item is soul … Read more

Card Hunter – The Next Generation Of Board Games

These days board games are getting used less and less with more people wanting to use electronic devices than entertain themselves using board games like monopoly and dungeons and dragons for example. However a select few developers have been making virtual board games where you see the board on the computer screen and you can see your cards to play, one of these developers is Blue Manchu a company that is relatively new to the … Read more

Gen Con 2013 Makes it’s Mark in the Gaming Community

For the past 45 years Gen Con has been a staple in the gaming community where gamers from Dungeons & Dragons to Magic: The Gathering can come together and enjoy a weekend full of fun and festivities. This year marks the 11th Gen Con in my hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. For those not familiar with Gen Con let me give you a bit of the convention’s history as well as some of my own personal … Read more

Facebook Game Train Station Review

This is another Facebook game. and as you can see from my screenshot, I have done a little playing. I have around 6 trains with over 20 cars attached. I have 2 tracks and two streets in my town, and while this game is not the most exciting game I have played in a long while, it isn’t too bad either. The object as I have seen it so far is to build trains to … Read more

Minecraft Passes 20 Million Total Sales

If you haven’t heard about Minecraft you either don’t have kids or don’t play games, this game is an obsession among my own kids who are 6 and 9 and especially my youngest one.  Minecraft just reached a huge milestone selling 8+ million copies of Minecraft on the Xbox 360 version of the game, and this is with the 11.7 million total people who are listed as having bought the game on the PC.  The … Read more

Dragoncast episode 14: New and Improved Featuring Special Guest Alex Byrom from Falchion Games

It’s been a few months since Dragoncast has had an episode but now we are back and dedicated now more than ever to provide you with episodes each and every week. First off we here at Dragoncast would like to wish former co-hosts Luke Bayliss and Bryce Posey the best on their future endeavors after their departure from the show.  However, we want to welcome our new co-host Dragon Blogger’s very own Victor Salazar AKA … Read more

Shared Currency in Guild Wars 2 with The Wallet

Guild Wars 2 finally introduced the Wallet in the latest build update which now allows you to combine all of your characters currency into a single shared wallet that any account can draw from.  No more having to find the nearest crafting station to deposit money from one character so another can withdraw it. The wallet is easily accessible by going to your character screen (H) and simply pressing on the coins icon to the … Read more

Having Some Fun With Online Car Games

If you enjoy playing various car themed games, then this site is a car game lovers paradise the site is called Car Games and can be found here http://cargames.org.uk/. There are more games here than I have seen in one place ever before, other than maybe a game store in the mall. There are not only games for car lovers, but also bike lovers, and quad lovers as well. They even have a few games … Read more

Kindle Fire Game: Blindscape

I have played text games before where only your imagination provides you a clue as to what the world described in the text looks like. This game is sort of like that. Here is the difference. There is no text. In fact, the screen is completely black. All you have are your ears, and a voice to guild you. This is another one of those games I just stumbled upon a few days ago while … Read more

Top 6 PS4 Games You Must Buy

Notice: The Top 6 PS4 Games You Must Buy List Is Rated By The Most Anticipated, Graphically Polished, and Expertly Crafted Masterpieces.  1. Final Fantasy XV With the release of Final Fantasy Xlll on PlayStation 3 the fans felt as if they were disappointed by a game that played and felt nothing like the Final Fantasy they remembered. Square Enix has noticed that they need to change up their game. While still raising the bar … Read more

Kings Road a Facebook Game Worth Traveling

This is one of the newest games on Facebook, and it is one of my newest favorites. Unlike so many of the other games on Facebook that require you to endlessly build up your forces only to log back in to find you have been attacked and have to rebuild everything, this one is different. When you start, you go through a short tutorial, and choose what kind of character you want to be. A … Read more

Blast from the Past: Alien Breed on Google Play

Back in the day, I played this game on my Amiga computer. The parent company Team 17 may have gotten it’s start on the Amiga, but it has transcended to cover a whole host of other platforms. Normally when I do a review of a game or even an application, I try to stick to free ones, this is one of the rare exceptions. I found this game on Google Play for $4.99, and was … Read more

Summer Video Game Giveaway: Win Any Game You Want

Time to kick off a video game giveaway here on DragonBlogger.com and rather than pick a single game like The Last of Us for the Playstation 3, I decided to let it be a video game of the winners choice!  You pick the video game that you want to win for any console or platform as long as the price is $59.99 or less. So enter below by getting as many entries as possible and … Read more