Browsing all articles by Mike Barrett, Author at PIXELS OR DEATH.
Warm Fuzzy: Mike and FIFA International Soccer
Mike Barrett | Tuesday, December 4, 2012 
December equals holidays. Holidays, if you’re sentimental like us, are a time for thinking about your friends and family and how much they mean to you. When games play an integral role in your existence, a lot of your favorite experiences with friends and family will have a videogame smack-dab …
The Wall Street Journal’s Borderlands 2 Review Is Fine, Actually.
Mike Barrett | Tuesday, September 18, 2012 
“Gaming is a multi-billion industry and yet there are still complete hacks like this guy writing about it for a publication like the Wall Street Journal. Wow.”
That’s right, today’s internet drama focused around Wall Street Journal writer Adam Najberg expressing his distaste for Gearbox’s Borderlands 2 in favor of more …
Nintendo, Please Don’t Mess Up Your Most Important Press Conference Of The Year
Mike Barrett | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 
Nintendo, sit down and have a drink. A strong one. We need to talk.
It has never been more important that you knock it out of the park for any press event than it is tomorrow. I don’t mean to come down hard on you like some of your other friends …
Can We Save Judging Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Until We Actually See It?
Mike Barrett | Friday, September 7, 2012 
I don’t understand my fellow gamers. We love to whine and moan about a lack of originality coming from major developers. Every gritty first person shooter trying to show us the errors of war and each seasonal roster update for sports franchises meets a wall of “UGH! MORE?!” responses year …
A Dark Souls Easy Mode Would Be Great, Actually
Mike Barrett | Wednesday, September 5, 2012 
“It is true that Dark Souls is rather difficult and a number of people may hesitate to play. This fact is really sad to me and I am thinking about whether I should prepare another difficulty that everyone can complete or carefully send all gamers the messages behind our difficult …
Mike Barrett | Friday, August 31, 2012 
Yesterday, The Verge revealed the next phase of Gamestop’s master plan to consume the last of our dollars in exchange for digital shenanigans. The gaming megastore wants to expand their digital sales inventory to include “classic games” no longer available in their physical stores.
Basically, a Gamestop executive finally did a …
Why Aren’t More FPS Games Like Die Hard?
Mike Barrett | Thursday, August 30, 2012 
Yesterday, a certain Patrick Lindsey broke rank with the rest of video game journalism and proclaimed that there is nothing particularly special about Spec Ops: The Line and its approach to war’s gut-wrenching reality. This did not go over well with some.
Most, really.
But my mildly esteemed colleague does have one …
