BJ Brown

Mount & Blade as a franchise is one of the pillars of the medieval RPG genre and is billed as a strategic action RPG with deep kingdom management features. While creating a kingdom isn’t executed in an RTS resource or crafting way, it is done in more of a warfare and diplomacy fashion. As a prequel to the story in Mount & Blade: Warband, Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord is essentially Mount & Blade Warband in a shiny new engine. Let’s dig deeper into what Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord is and what it i...

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Chivalry 2 expands upon the success of its predecessor by doubling down on what made it great...multiplayer chaos! As a first person melee multiplayer fighter, Chivalry 2 does away with the need for much of a story and drops you into a battlefield. With a battlecry and a sprint towards battle, you are instantly thrust into the heart of bloody battle. Surprisingly, as visceral as that sounds, the experience is equal parts vicious and hilarious thanks to developer Torn Banner Studios.
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Figuring out how to stop hate raids can be frustrating. Racism, misogyny, homophobia, and plenty of other -isms run rampant across the interwebs unfortunately. Live streamers that are part of targeted communities have long pleaded with streaming platforms to generate tools to help prevent hate raids. Here are some tips that should help in dealing with them.
Acquire a chat moderator
If you are fortunate enough to have a friend or family member that is willing to do so, recruit them to moderate...

The same new game, with baby steps towards innovation... kinda
Sports games like NBA 2K23 are difficult to review since the sports gamer community has varied reasons and expectations of the game. Some players, especially content creators, will only play MyPlayer so that they can prove their Esports pro chops. Other players will only play MyTeam so that they can brag and boast about the collection of high ranked players they’ve collected. Then there are casuals who simply want to play as their...

Marvel Dice Throne is here, and my Spidey-Sense is tingling in the best ways! Having a fun and competitive dice-based game is something I enjoy because, more often than not, the game is easy to learn. Thankfully, Marvel Dice Throne somewhat allows for each character’s uniqueness to shine as you battle it out against friends.
Simply put, Marvel Dice Throne is the Marvel version of an already established tabletop gaming system developed by Nate Chatellier and Manny Trembley. Gavan Brown also de...

Disney recently held their D23 Expo to unveil their plans for future games, movies, and TV shows. Early in that expo, they held a Disney and Marvel Games Showcase to reveal new video games on the horizon.

Untitled Black Panther and Captain America Game

Amy Hennig’s new studio Skydance New Media is apparently throwing their weight around. After announcing that they were working on a new Star Wars game earlier this year, they are now revealing that the Marvel project they are working on is a te...

Overwhelmed streamers should definitely take a bit of time to check out Lioranboard to see how it can help improve their stream. Billed as a digital stream deck, Lioranboard allows streamers to customize and automate a ton of different stream actions.
What is Lioranboard?
Lioranboard is an amazing digital tool that can be used to increase interactivity between your stream and your audience. Great streamers realize the value of interacting with chat. Lioranboard bottles that value into a free ...

Growing up in the early days of gaming afforded me quite a few different space combat sims. As a fan of movies like Star Wars, The Last Starfighter, and shows like Battlestar Galactica, I was always instantly drawn to any game that put me in the cockpit.
Space combat sims had their shine for a while as classics like the Wing Commander series, the PC based X-Wing franchise (which includes Tie Fighter), Star Wars Rogue Squadron, Colony Wars, and more quenched my space jockey thirst.
Lately, the...

Starsector is without a doubt one of the premiere tactical space battle RPGs on the market. With lots of different ship variety, there are few games that put you in the pilot seat of extremely tactical space battles.
As you play Starsector, you begin to notice hostile fleets getting bigger and bigger. Frequently, enemy fleets are even able to have and deploy many more capital ships than you are able to. As a result, the common question is ‘how do you get a bigger fleet in Starsector’ or ‘how ...

Sports games like NBA 2K and Madden are at an all time low in fan support. Of course, you wouldn’t know it by the game sales. Big game companies like 2K and EA Sports are pulling in big numbers for their respective titles. Fans would expect that to mean that recent titles are the best that have ever been. While in some ways that could be true, why are there so many fans quick to trash each latest installment?
While the laundry list of ‘I wish they would fix’ could go on for days, this peer in...

Dying Light was a surprise hit when it debuted in 2015. Developed by Techland (creators of Dead Island), it was easy to see how the things that made Dead Island great only added to the fun in Dying Light. The addition of parkour to the already visceral combat of Dead Island transformed Dying Light into a stylish zombie slaughter playground.
A real treat for bloodthirsty horror fans.
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Then, 7 years swiftly passed and Dying Light 2 emerged with the stakes much higher than be...

Since the beginning of time, gamers have envisioned their favorite shows, movies, and even game franchises merged with other games that they enjoy. Oftentimes it is clear that some original games are simply generic versions of a movie that the creator loved and didn’t have the money to license. Unfortunately, when developers do get the licenses the money used ends up feeling like they could have been better served in the development of the game.
Just for a while, let’s sit back and dream abou...

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Digital content is surging in popularity and gaming channels are trying their hand at the hearts of the masses...again.
Recently, gamers have seen the return of G4TV as well as the launch (and fall) of the new gaming entertainment channel Venn.tv. Pushed as digital channels more than network TV, these offerings of gaming culture news, comedy, tips, and interviews beg the question, “Will they survive this ti...

Poet, author, parent, and freelance music and video game critic, B.J. Brown is a talented blerd writer hoping to become a Mechwarrior when he grows up. Founder of the Heed Magazine Geekswagg Podcast and BlackNerdsPlay. He is also the host of the Shaded Pixels Podcast and a regular contributor to ConFreaksAndGeeks, ForAllNerds.com, and more, BJ hopes to make his “Bunneh3000” gamertag the gateway drug to geekdom! He’s currently sending resumes to Battlestar Galactica citing his love of engineer...