Image Credit Nintendo Have you ever experienced some media, whether it be a film, a show, or a game, and just thought to yourself, “dang, that was a masterpiece?” For example, back in the fall of 2020, I played through…
Category: Video Games
Overcoming Adversity: An Elden Ring Review
Image Credit Playstation “It Is My Ordeal, You Could Say. To Test Myself, To Better Myself, To Fell Ever Greater Foes” Elden Ring: Iron Fist Alexander “Elden Ring” is an open-world action-adventure game created by FromSoftware, with Hidetaka Miyazaki heading…
Pokemon Legends Arceus Review: A Much Needed Shake-Up to a Beloved Series
Image Credit: Collider Pokémon is an absolute juggernaut of a franchise that has been around for 26 years this month, starting in 1996 with the original first-generation games Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green released in Japan. Now, 26 years later,…
Halo Infinite Review: A Mixed Bag But Fun Game
Image credit The Verge Back in November 2001, Micorosft released their first console, the Xbox, and alongside it was a little game called Halo. Twenty years and a billion dollars, later Halo is now a gaming juggernaut, but ever since…
Esports at SOU: Interview with Ashley Rad
With in person classes and events fastly approaching, many students are wondering: what is there to do at SOU? This past week, The Siskyou interviewed Ashley Rad on Esports at SOU as the program has many exciting events coming up. …
Animal Crossing New Horizons: A Review
It’s been over eight years since Animal Crossing New Leaf was released to 3DS, so it’s been a long dry spell for admirers of this game. But the wait has been worth it. Since the release of the Nintendo Switch,…
SOU faculty shares her interests in Esports
The popularity of esports, or competitive video gaming, has been growing since the early 2000’s. Around 2010, game developers started actively designing toward a professional esports subculture. The National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE) formed in 2016, and since then,…
“Enemy Within” Looks to be a Breath of Fresh Air
A remake of the 1994 game UFO: Enemy Unknown/X-COM: UFO Defense , X-COM: Enemy Unknown took critics and fans by storm, receiving over 20 awards at E3 2012. With a smart mix of action and strategy, it restarted the heartbeat…
This Summer In Gaming: What To Look For In The Coming Months
Today will be a break from the usual formula of this column. As this will be the last Siskiyou gaming article for the school year, I thought that I’d talk a little bit about what we’ve seen so far this…
Interview with James Portnow of “Extra Credits”
As I’ve mentioned in past articles, there are several forces increasing the sophistication of video games. “Extra Credits” is creating awareness of it. “Extra Credits” is a web series written by game designer James Portnow and animated by Daniel Floyd…