Marcus Writes About Games

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 may be ditching its traditional single-player, but that doesn't mean we can't talk about the best campaigns in multiplayer shooters! Game journalist Ian Bourdreau and Shack News Editor Charles Singletary join me to determine just that. We discuss Call of Duty, Halo, and other shooters in between to decide which four campaigns are worthy enough to be immortalized on a mountainside.

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How does Inti Creates' throwback to 8-bit Castlevania hold up? Hear my initial thoughts on Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, the biggest event in video games, is on the horizon. Pod guests Naomi Lugo, Zak Wojnar, and Jack Gardner will join myself in Los Angeles to see it all go down first-hand. But before we head to E3, we sat down and shared our top predictions for the big show. What new games will be announced? Will a dormant franchise make a comeback? Will gamers get a peek at any next-generation hardware? 

After presenting our hot takes, we determine the four most plausible announcements in the most hotly contested–and lenghty–debate of the series yet. So in the immortal words of Bob Ross, grab yourself a tall glass of ice tea, sit back in the old easy chair, and enjoy this jumbo-sized E3 episode of Carving Gaming Rushmores!

How does this cutesy, generation-spanning adventure measure up?

Super Smash Bros. is coming to Nintendo Switch! Regardless of whether it's a brand new game or a port of the Wii U Smash Bros., some new fighters will undoutedly make their debuts. But what iconic gaming characters should throw hands with Nintendo's finest? Game journalists Blake Hester, Jack Gardner, and myself enter the ring to pit our personal dream picks against each other to decide the four fighters that should make the cut.

Minit takes top-down Zelda and condenses it to 60-second playthroughs. Is the experiment working so far?

 

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Naomi Lugo, O'Dell Harmon, and myself engage in a debate about bad video game hairdos as ridiculous as the hairstyles themselves. It's a winding road of tangents that includes being eaten alive, the rapper Coolio as a Final Fantasy guest star, and sexy Midna fan art.

After spending a few hours living the pirate's life in Sea of Thieves, I share my initial thoughts on Rare's multiplayer swashbuckling adventure.

2018 is the year of the dog! And Episode 5 of Carving Gaming Rushmores is the pod of the dog as well! Craig Taylor, Joseph Knoop, and myself open a box of digital canine characters and determine which four earn top pedigrees.

With the release of the Shadow of the Colossus remake, Extra Life Editor Jack Gardner and Provokr/Screen Rant writer Zak Wojnar join me to decide the game's four best colossi. Which among the pantheon of 16 majestic beasts reign supreme? Along the way, we also ponder whether or not the swordsman colossus could utilize sweet parkour maneuvers to combat the game's final foe.