LEGO Marvel Super Heroes and White Noise - Beeps and Beers

This week my mind is on collaboration. Now, I have been playing a lot of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance - both parts one and two. My reviews on those two titles went live earlier this week, but I also found myself wanting to play something a little whimsical, a little Marvel - and found myself firing up LEGO Marvel Super Heroes again this week. Honestly LEGO with almost any property seems like a good idea, but the Marvel games are among my favorites their collaboration has produced. On a similar note, I tried a new beer last weekend called White Noise - a collaboration between two of my favorite breweries in Perrin Brewing Company and Cigar City Brewing.

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LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Mac Review

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens shows that while the familiar LEGO formula is still holding strong and entertaining, there is room for growth as the developers manage to take some chances that pay off more often than not.

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LEGO Dimensions - PS4 Review

LEGO. Those tiny blocks that by themselves are truly nothing more than colored plastic designed to hurt like hell when they are stepped on in the middle of the night. Combined together though and they open up a multiverse of imaginative possibilities that can take children and even the grouchiest of adults on adventures of fun. LEGO Dimensions takes this multiverse and puts it both into a digital and physical format taking the ideas created from Toys For Bob (Skylanders) and the more recent Disney Infinity one step further.

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Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex - Retro Reflections

“Crash Bandicoot” was a famous PlayStation platform game which spawned many sequels. I completed one of them a long time ago and decided to try another Crash game, this time on PlayStation 2.

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LEGO Worlds - PC Preview

Lego worlds is one of those games that has huge potential but forgets a key piece of human psychology: we like things more if we work for it.

Lego worlds drops your khaki clad adventurer into a world created entirely out of Lego blocks. Which made me cringe a little remembering all the unfortunate encounters my feet have had with the little things. Like Minecraft, there aren’t any tutorials, you’re basically just left to run willy nilly around the biome and bash things.

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LEGO The Hobbit - Xbox One Review

As a child, building toys such as Erector Sets, K’NEX, and LEGO would keep me entertained for hours as I found new ways to use the pieces to bring my ideas to life. While growing older, that fascination moved away from the physical world and into a digital one, where video games would fill that same role. Despite that transition, I had never played any of the long line of LEGO games that have been released over the last few years. The release of LEGO: The Hobbit finally broke that seal, as it combined my love of the toy itself, and fond memories of growing up reading J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series with my dad. But does the game do an effective job of combining these elements into an enjoyable package?

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