Welcome to the Burning Barrel Awards for 2017! This year, Hank and I decided to do something a bit collaborative for the site in which we came up with a list of categories, chose some personal winners...
As I started this a good year ago now, a few things have changed. Some podcasts that were previously on this list are gone as they no longer are around or have just lost me along the way. As a result,...
It’s that time of year again. A time for giving, receiving, remembrance and, most importantly, a time to reflect on all the wonderful (and shitty) games of the past 12 months and put them in an arbitr...
Ten This was perhaps the latest addition to my list, but the goofy multiplayer experience this free iPhone oddity provides was so unique and imaginative, I had to give it some attention. I’ve only pla...
Podcasting is a huge part of my life. Growing up, I hated talk radio and thought it was boring due to how much of it was about local sports or the weather. Fast forward a good 10 years from that: I ha...
The last year has been quite the ride for video games. We saw some of the best and worst of the industry, the steady decline of quality Triple-A titles and the rise of indie games to fill the void. I ...
Remember those maze games that require precision to move a small object you control to the goal? Take that, add the Super Meat Boy sensibilities of “EVERYTHING WILL KILL YOU” and mix in the stres...
I watch a lot of movies. Violent movies, on occasion. I’ve seen Nicolas Cage smash open a man’s skull in a hotel lobby, Vincent Cassel bludgeon a man to death with a fire extinguisher in a nightclub, ...
Tucked away in the corner of the third floor of the Seattle Convention Center, not far from Popcap’s rollicking booth, was a curious little title called “Mental Drift”, a platformer from Lo and Behold...
Yesterday, one of my absolute favorite bands decided to call it quits. Ween was born in 1984 after Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in 8th grade and since then has evolved from two k...
