Alex Riviello

This is probably my favorite memory from any New York Comic Con, and I’ve been attending since the very beginning. In 2007 while working at Creature-Corner.com I got the opportunity to attend...

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It’s rare that I can look back at my older work and appreciate it- I’m one of those writers that hopes he’s always improving himself- but I took a look back at a preview I wrote of FALLOUT ...

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I’ve been so crazy busy that I forget that this exists sometimes. I’ve been at GameNGuide.com for over a year now, still working as the sole editor, still watching it go up and up. Funniest...

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Well, it’s been seven months since I posted here after accepting the editor position at GameNGuide, and in that time we’ve managed to grow the site larger than a few of my former web homes. T...

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This week I started up a new, full-time job at Game & Guide . I’m overseeing the whole site, working on content and schedules and making it as great as it can possibly be. It’s pretty much wh...

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I’m really excited about the upcoming Fantastic Fest tour. One of the only downsides of seeing great films at festivals is the long wait for everyone else to finally get their eyes on them, so ...

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I’m going to be contributing to the Alamo Drafthouse’s new magazine, Birth.Movies.Death. , along with a bunch of other Badass Digest writers. Absolutely can’t wait. There’s something abou...

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In sixth grade at my new fancy private school we were instructed to make a dust jacket for a fake book we had authored. This is what I ended up with- it’s still one of my favorite things I’ve...

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I’ve signed on as Gaming Editor for Badass Digest . Incredibly excited. Love the site and everything about it- its voice, its readership, the incredible writers they already have on board, who ...

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Well, I’ve gone and moved to New Jersey. It wasn’t something we planned (is it something anyone plans, really?) but an opportunity came up for a great apartment that’s twice as big as my la...

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I wrote two lists this year, both about games! For Tapsauce I wrote a list of the Top Ten iOS games. My iPhone 5 has been getting a helluva workout the last month, and I’ve got it loaded with...

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Six years ago, the Wii was released. I waited on line in the morning for a couple of hours in the freezing cold to pick it up after staying up all night for a party, coming home exhausted only to...

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My plans for this year’s New York Comic Con fell through magnificently, but I did manage to attend an event for Gearbox Software and Sega’s Aliens: Colonial Marines. Sadly I wasn’t too impr...

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I’ve been reading August Derleth’s Cthulhu Mythos stories for the first time (I know!) and really enjoying them. For those unaware, Derleth was a contemporary of H.P. Lovecraft who basically ...

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These days it’s almost refreshing to see a major new vdeo game without a large number at the end of it. Thanks to Bethesda Softworks we have a new IP from Arkane Studios (Dark Messiah), a studi...

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Man, there’s nothing like caring for kids to sap your creative energy. My youngest is three months right now, my oldest two years and change. Working nights and watching them both a few days ou...

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I’ve had a copy of Inversion sitting on my shelf for a while now. I hadn’t heard anything about it and hadn’t really anticipated that changing, but a couple of days ago I decided to fire it...

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I’m reading Catching Fire (second in the Hunger Games) which is even more disappointing than the first so far, but my buddy’s notes in the book are keeping me going. 

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I wrote this review before I sold it, figuring I could place it with one of the usual sites I freelance for. That week one of them decided that they’re not going to be featuring game review...

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Evil Dead 2 done in claymation. After this and his version of The Thing, can we just hire Lee Hardcastle for every upcoming horror remake?

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