Alex Langley can control gravity, swim at over eight-hundred miles per second, and has a dangerous, borderline nuclear passion for writing. He also writes news, interviews, and comics for the website rocketllama.com, has over 20,000 followers on twitter, and edits content for geek girl/web celebrity @actionchick Katrina Hill at actionflickchick.com. Thousands follow his work online, and he has been a speaker on panels at conventions, including Wonder-Con, and San Diego Comic-Con International. His published works also include academic papers.
Alex Langley
Just Cause 2 vs Saint’s Row the Third
Open-world games have always been about providing players with unprecedented levels of freedom. Freedom to explore, freedom to pursue their favorite activities, and freedom to wreck damn near everything. Both Saint's Row the Third and Just Cause 2 really embrace that freedom to wreck stuff, encouraging the player to smash, bash, and crash any and everything they want. Saint's Row the Third tend to
Left 4 Dead vs Dead Rising: Who Makes the Zombies Cry For their Mommies?
The zombies have arrived, and they've infiltrated every aspect of pop culture. These days it seems like everyone's dreaming up zombie versions of their favorite characters, coming up with special zombie levels of their favorite games, or kicking it up a notch with entire games devoted to the walking dead. Left 4 Dead and Dead Rising are two such games riding on this wave of carnivorous corpses, so
Cast That Game: Dead Rising
Ever wonder what your favorite game would be like as a movie? Well, wonder no more! Arcade Sushi's Cast That Game series is going to take a pain-staking look at your favorite games and, using our crack skills as connoisseurs of pop culture, figure out who to cast in this video game-turned-movie. This week's game? Dead Rising!
Cast That Game: Gears of War
Ever wonder what your favorite game would be like as a movie? Well, wonder no more! Arcade Sushi's Cast That Game series is going to take a pain-staking look at your favorite games and, using our crack skills as connoisseurs of pop culture, figure out who to cast in this video game-turned-movie. This week's game? Gears of War!
Breath of Fire vs Wild Arms: Which RPG is the Best-Armed?
With the advent of the Super Nintendo, gamers everywhere saw a boom of turn-based RPGS. Later systems, such as the Playstation, also enjoyed a similarly large library of quality dungeon-delving, boss-slaying, experience gaining games. Breath of Fire and Wild ARMS are two of the biggest franchises to be born from this era. The Wild Arms series added a healthy mix of puzzles and item usage a la Lege
Marvel vs. DC: Which Comic Company Has the Best Games?
Marvel games. DC games. Pitting the two comic companies against each other is such a natural progression that we're kicking ourselves for not having done it already. We've seen these characters face off in the comic world, so let's check out what happens when we pit their games against each other. It's the ultimate comic company video game fight to the finish!
Resident Evil vs Silent Hill: Which Series is the Best?
Once upon a midnight dreary, came two games most dark and eerie.
-Edgar Allen Poe
Metroid vs. Castlevania: Which Franchise is the Best?
Castlevania vs. Metroid. The battle between these two highly successful franchises is finally going to be decided. Which one will come out on top?
Peach vs. Zelda: Which Princess is the Best?
Save the princess! It's one of the oldest objectives in video games. There've been a lot of kidnapped princesses over the years, but none are as synonymous with the trope as Princess Peach and Princess Zelda. But, despite both of their penchant towards getting nabbed by the badguys, there's a lot more to these two ladies than simply being hostages. They run, they laugh, and, occasionally, they kic