Brian SteeleA Tale of Two Tales: Call of Duty Black Ops 3’s Hidden StoryIt can never be said that single player campaigns, in the average player’s mind, register as all that important of an aspect of the yearly…Mar 28, 2023Mar 28, 2023
Brian SteeleAn Elder Millennial’s Oral History of EA Sports-Era NASCAR Games, Part 1This is an adaptation of a lengthy Twitter thread I did on the matter over the course of approximately two and a half weeks. It has been…Mar 9, 2021Mar 9, 2021
Brian SteeleWolfenstein Needs to Humanize Its NazisEarly on in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, you, as “Terror Billy” BJ Blazkowicz, are fighting through a section of the Kreisau Circle’s…Oct 28, 20172Oct 28, 20172
Brian SteeleWhy I Quit Twitter and Twitter ActivismBefore August 2014, I was not a very vocal user of Twitter. I mostly used it to tweet obscene jokes at the few meatspace friends I had on…Nov 21, 2016Nov 21, 2016
Brian SteeleDifficulty Shaming: Very Easy Mode For The Spineless DeveloperI like FPS games. Probably three quarters of my gaming time since I first stumbled upon Modern Warfare 2 in 2009 has been dedicated to…Nov 17, 20164Nov 17, 20164
Brian SteeleSpeedrunning — A Primer For Beginners, By a BeginnerNote: This piece was originally written for the site Coopinionated, but with that site fallen out of use & my desire to consolidate my…Nov 15, 2016Nov 15, 2016
Brian SteeleYour Goes-Fast Is PoliticalIt is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the Gamers are at it again.Sep 29, 2016Sep 29, 2016
Brian SteeleA Battlefield 4 Achievement and Autism Made Me A Nazi (UPDATE)It was a November evening in 2014. I had used the internet handle TopGearNY or some variant of it for a lot of things since 2004. And you…Feb 24, 2016Feb 24, 2016