July 29, 2024
The Great Eight – Summer Travel Guide: 8 Video Game Destinations You Should Pack Your Bags For
As the calendar page heads towards August, a simple glance at the weather should remind…
Ryan Bates
A gamer since the days games only had 8-bits to work with, Ryan is a So Cal native who likes gaming now as much as he did in olden times when the year started with a 1. Other interests include theme parks, boxing, obscure trivia, and trash movies. You can find him out in the World Wide Weird on Twitter at @RyanWritesGood.
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Articles by Ryan Bates
July 18, 2024
Conscript Review – Real-Life Horror That’s Not Easy to Stomach
Survival Horror and World War I provide quite the uneasy combination. Find out why in…
July 8, 2024
The Great Eight – 8 Upcoming Video Games We Have Our Eye On in July 2024
So, here’s a little peek behind the curtain here at Last Word on Gaming. As…
June 28, 2024
The Not So Great Eight – 8 Video Game Presidents Who Are Debatably Just the Worst
According to recent polling numbers, about 20% of Americans who plan to vote in the…
June 24, 2024
Points of Pride – Gaming’s Best Members of the LGBTQ+ Community
June is Pride Month, meant to honor the history, legacy, and progression in the LGBTQ+…
June 10, 2024
Mental HP – Ten Games That Handle Mental Health Issues With The Respect and Dignity They Deserve
As long as people have had brains, they’ve also had to deal with mental health…
May 15, 2024
Backlog Review: “Telling Lies” – Get Your Dirty Little Fingers In Everybody’s Pie
One of the great things about gaming is the genuine fact that for every type…
May 14, 2024
Disasterpiece Theater: The Landscape in the Gaming Industry Looks Bleak, but for Xbox and EA, It May Be Possible Everything Is Going According to Plan
Unless you’ve been hiding in a Vault-Tec vault for the past two hundred years, you…
May 14, 2024
5 Plot Points “Fallout 5” Will Have to Contend With Thanks to Amazon Prime
Everyone’s excited for the end of the world, if 2024 pre-war numbers are anything to…
April 24, 2024
Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes Review – Role-Playing Games 101
In 1987, a game featuring a playable party of four characters took part in turn-based…