As a journalist John has covered everything from rural town meetings to the U.S. Congress and even done time as a crime reporter and photographer.|His first venture into writing about the game industry came in the form of a computer column called "On the Chip Side," which grew to have over 1 million circulation and was published in newspapers in several states. From there he did several "ask the computer guy" columns in magazines such as Up Front! in New Mexico and Who Cares? in Washington D.C. When the Internet started to become popular, he began writing guided Web tours for the newly launched Washington Post online section as well as reviews for the weekend section of the paper, something he still does from time to time.
His experience in trade publications came as a writer and reviewer for Government Computer News.
As the editor of GiN, he demands strict editorial standards from all the writers and reviewers. Breeden feels the industry needs a weekly, reliable trade publication covering the games industry and works tirelessly to accomplish that goal.
Each year, the Skylanders series tries to do something new to keep gameplay fresh. This year vehicles were added to form Skylanders Superchargers. Far more than a gimmick, Superchargers improves the game in addictively fun and exciting ways.
Mad Max presents players with a blood and oil-soaked world where people are killed for a glass of clean water. Presenting a different story from Fury Road or the other films, the game is loaded with enough vehicle and land-based combat to keep any action-junkie happy.
We’ve run the shadows in Seattle and Berlin, and now move to the orient with Shadowrun Hong Kong, the latest and arguably the best entry so far in developer Harebrained Schemes’ excellent translation of the beloved pen and paper role-playing game.
What better way to celebrate Labor Day than by diving into a brand new game? We offer up the first hour of gameplay of Stasis, a horror adventure game set on an abandoned space ship where the entire crew has been violently murdered. With no memory, you will have to piece together clues as to who you are, and what happened to the crew. Or you may just share their terrible fate.
Pure Hold’em brings the amazing graphics of the Pure series that we saw with Chess and Pool to the game of Poker. Suitable for players of any skill level, Pure Hold’em deals a winning hand for a budget price on the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Hoi, Chummers! The wait is over as Harebrained Schemes releases Shadowrun: Hong Kong. Join us as we dive into the shadows for the first hour of gameplay in what is proving to be another epic adventure as only the Shadowrun series can deliver.
The Approaching Infinity patch adds many more textures to the game, so expect to see a lot more color in space and on planets. But don’t worry, there are still plenty of space bunnies to pet, if you can find them while dodging all the other monsters that really want to eat your head.
Maximum Games is looking to redefine the whole stealth action genre with Alekhine’s Gun, a title that offers open world freedom, intense stealth gameplay and an exciting Cold War plot that’s not to be missed. Dive into the shadows a bit with its creators.
The next to last episode in the Telltale Games series, Game of Thrones: A Nest of Vipers, turns up the combat while starting to wrap up the series in typical GoT fashion. Expect a lot of blood to be spilt on the sand, in the snow, on the forest floor and pretty much everywhere this time around.
Covering all four Jurassic films, LEGO Jurassic World lets players control most of the characters from the movies as well as the dinosaurs in classic LEGO-based block building and smashing action.
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