Sam's Scary Games, F.E.A.R.

This is my review of F.E.A.R.

E3 is Big, Internet is Bigger!

The sort of light headed heaviness that fills my eyes as I scroll through hundreds of game article is unique to the greatest week in gaming. This week is during E3 that comes once a year and has been my goal as a blogger for years. Going to the greatest gathering place of all things gaming is an opportunity beyond easy description. I have watched tons of video game conferences and seen videos and pictures of the booth on many blogs and websites. Actually being there would be amazing to me and would allow me to be one of the reporters I have followed for year. As a computer science major, being near the people who I hope to be my colleagues or competition in the future will be the greatest experience of my career.

Blogging about games has become a hobby to me to tell people about games and get feedback from them to know how to improve my writing or to just have a discussion on an exciting new game. Letting a person pick a game from the other side of a glass case in a store now seems like a sin to many enthusiasts and to me, it feels like an opportunity to educate. I find great pleasure in telling people all I know about games and have become well educated in how to find out the best way to describe a game to someone. Whether it is comparing Halo Reach to an epic novel like the Odyssey or telling a confused parent that maybe they should consider Wii Sports Resort over Deca Sports.


This video had over 20,000 views on YouTube in about two days as a result of good timing and my willingness to stay awake for several extra hours.

Headcrabs are great for guarding games

Finding ways to keep a reader's or watcher's attention throughout an entire speech, article, or video about video games and technology has become more than a hobby to me, it has become my personal goal. I keep trying to find ways to keep attention and keep from looking like just another kid from a video game forum. Letting people know what else you've done or maybe adding a humorous but related image can take the edge off eye strain.

The main reason for my writing this article is to sell myself to the folks at KmartGamer. I heard about KmartGamer from the website Joystiq.com that an article about KmartGamer sending bloggers to E3. I have in fact been contributing to this blog since the end of August 2010. Before that, I was part of a group known as Base2Games which died mainly from a lack of experience, the remnants of which can be seen here and here. Since the death of Base2 I have been able to drum up my personal channel to 36 subscribers and 51,771 video views. This is the result of quite a lot of work taking place during the school year even as I am a full time college student. I have started my own review series called Sam's Scary Games in which I review scary video games. I have made 4 of these videos so far with three videos having more than 200 views and one having over 400. My other personal series, Casual Collecting has approximately 100 video views per video. This is pretty good considering I don't advertise myself and have no affiliates.

All of the success I have had has been a result of my hard work and only came after long hours of work and personal training. When I review a game or preview an event I always remain objective and talk about what a game is rather than what it means to me. Everyone has a different taste in games and I think it's important to realize that games are to be judged and reported on based on their qualities and ability to deliver what they aim to, not to be compared to other pieces of media or scored on how much you personally like a game.

These are a few examples of my past work.

• Unboxing Video
• Sam's Scary Games Video
• Game Review
• Game Collecting
• Industry Articles Part 1 Part 2

Recent Pick-ups Episode 2