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Since we weren’t able to contain ourselves over the long-awaited and extremely hyped release of Diablo III, we had to post a new video featuring the game a little early. Thus, we dubbed this episode number 1.5. Incidentally, we’ll be posting new episodes of The Fraxial Show every Wednesday from now on, as it’s most convenient for both of us. Look forward to next week’s video, which will feature even more Diablo 3 fun and some more lively discussion!

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To celebrate the release of Diablo III, it was necessary to post a video showing off some of the game’s mechanics as well as the new skill system which I find really neat. This video goes over the first few minutes of the game, while I play as a Wizard class. Yer a Wizard, Harry.

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Good news everyone! We’ve decided to start a new weekly series called The Fraxial Show. Each week, we’ll post a new video of us playing any game we choose while talking about news in gaming, what we’ve been playing recently as well as just general discussion. It will be in the format of a podcast and we invite you to offer suggestions for content you’d like to hear about or which game you’d like to see us play for the following week.

For our first episode, we decided to go back to playing Portal 2 on account of the new Steam Workshop stuff that was recently added, allowing players to create their own levels and other awesome stuff. Check it out, it’s really cool! Our following video will feature content from Diablo III, as that’s the newest game on the agenda. Look forward to that!

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It has been several weeks since our last video and website update, but fear not we have remained active the whole time. To start off our return to more posts, I present you my latest review of Mass Effect 3. Actually it’s not so much of a review as it is my thoughts on the overall game along with that controversial ending.

It is worth mentioning that there are spoilers in this video around the 12:50 mark and this will ruin the ending of the game if you do care about it. You may also notice a distinct lack of gameplay footage in this video. Despite requesting permission from EA a few times, they have constantly denied our request and refuse to provide a reasoning behind it. As that is somewhat of an issue when it comes to a video review, I decided to pull out my Wacom tablet so I could draw around that issue.

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Due to recent changes, I was forced with a tough decision this video series. I explain in this video why I have decided to put the entire series on hold and discuss what will be coming up in the future. With a strong focus on bringing quality content, I will spend the next few weeks analyzing what needs improving and how we can do so moving forward.  For now, don’t expect too much content in the upcoming weeks as I will be working on a few new ideas for the future of Fraxial Gaming.

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The third mission of Battlefield 3 co-op is somewhat of a stealth-based objective which involves rescuing a hostage and then escorting him through a series of firefights to an evac helicopter. Watch the video to see how it’s done.

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We wrap up another week of games with another very important first-person shooter called Half-Life. The first game developed by Valve is important for many reasons, the biggest being how it changed the way we think about single player experiences. The dialogue, storyline and overall gameplay was very different than anything else at the time. But it’s importance does not stop there, the mod kit for Half-Life eventually lead to three new series for Valve. The Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat and Team Fortress series started life as mods before being acquired by Valve.

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Grim Fandango is another classic point-and-click adventure game released by Lucas Arts. Like other Lucas Arts adventure games up to date, the art style, dialogue and puzzles in Grim Fandango are simply great. Despite it’s praise from day one, the decline in popularity with the point-and-click genre would turn the game into a commercial failure. Lucas Arts would give the genre one last try with a new Monkey Island, but it would be over a decade before new title in the genre would see the light of day.

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We’re now on the second mission in BF3 co-op. This time, the army gives us a very expensive helicopter to play around in. Watch the video above and see how we rain death upon our foes and save the day once more.

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One of my concerns with this video series was that certain games would be quite a hassle to get working. Things where looking good as most games moving forward should not have too many issues running under Windows 7 or XP. Falcon 4.0 is the first title that no matter what I tried, I could not get it working at a reasonable performance due to compatibility issues. From the brief time spent on the game, I can see that it is a pretty solid combat flight sim. However without being able to play it at reasonable performance I cannot give it a final judgement.