Review: Stasis
Design. Good design makes or breaks a game. Some games can rely on their namesake to imply quality and that gives them leeway to slack. But for a game like Stasis, the first game funded through...
View ArticleReview: Bloodborne The Old Hunters
I’ve never really given serious thought to From Software’s DLC. Or at least not in ways like I do the base games. But if you look back on the previous downloadable releases, Dark Souls’ Artorias of...
View ArticleReview: Masochisia
Masochisia is a scary story. I stop short of calling it a game, but that’s something I learned to differentiate since the medium has evolved beyond the simple jumping and gunning. In fact, Masochisia...
View ArticleGDC 2016 Preview: Sitting Under a Blanket with Little Book
Let me tell you about a little VR game called, Little Book. Designed for the Oculus as part of a student team’s final project at a French game design school, Little Book is a marriage of new...
View ArticleGDC 2016 Preview: Surviving a Neon Nightmare in P.A.M.E.L.A
Open world environments don’t easily lend themselves to the horror genre. The sort of possibilities and freedoms allowed in an open environment is difficult to manage when one needs to stage specific...
View ArticleWhat Can VR Do for Horror?
Virtual reality gaming is such a new development to videogames that one can’t help but speculate what its impact will be to the future of entertainment. When I went to GDC, the immediate impression VR...
View ArticleReview: Back in 1995
Back in 1995 is both the title of the game, and the start of a long rant. “Back in 1995, games were like this!” says indie developer Throw the Warped Code Out. The graphics are reminiscent of the...
View ArticleE3 2016: Friday the 13th is Coming Along Just Right
For fans of the movies, they should have no fear (other than fearing Jason) of the upcoming game’s devotion to the source material. The developers behind Friday the 13th: The Game showed Rely on...
View ArticleReview: The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine
Considering the news that CD Projekt RED is shifting their focus to their new project, Cyberpunk 2077, I think it’s good time to visit the last hurrah of their venerated Witcher series, Witcher 3:...
View Article‘What Remains of Edith Finch’ is a Breathless Kind of Emotional Terror
I’ve been seeing a lot of art about family this year. Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 famously introduces gamers to the haunted Baker clan, while Fox’s X-Men movie, Logan tells a powerful story about...
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