The Heavy Pour Performing the Play By Sara Clemens • July 2nd, 2019 Sara gets hype over E3’s Dying Light 2 demo, glorious goofs and all.
Five More From PAX East 2019 By Levi Rubeck • May 23rd, 2019 Cutting through my notes of PAX East 2019 (and earlier, gulp) to drop a few thoughts on small, punchy games coming forth hopefully soon.
Chasing Pinballs Through the Earth By Levi Rubeck • May 16th, 2019 Creature in the Well is a sly title that purports that everything’s all been laid out.
The Beatdown is Coming Back By Levi Rubeck • May 9th, 2019 Streets of Rage 4 is as much a mixtape rhythm game as it was a brawl simulator.
The Heavy Pour A Subtler Magick Filled the Air: Exploring The Sinking City By Sara Clemens • May 7th, 2019 Traversing the flooded streets of The Sinking City left a lasting impression on Sara.
Looking Ahead to Panzer Paladin as it Looks Back By Levi Rubeck • April 25th, 2019 A pinch of Titanfall, a little Mega Man, a fair shake of a couple Zelda’s, all coming from the well-seasoned sprite chefs at Tribute, I was already on board with Panzer Paladin.
So the Katana is Back By Levi Rubeck • April 11th, 2019 Like black clothes and classic jams, some things never go out of style, and we might as well just pin ninjas to the list now and forever.
Wavecrash!! Literalizes the Puzzle Brawler By Levi Rubeck • April 25th, 2018 Dreams are often only interesting to the dreamer, but occasionally some gold can be dug up from a seemingly random, chaotic assemblage of our brain dumps.
Putting a Cooperative Hex on Fascist Scumbags By Levi Rubeck • April 18th, 2018 Hexadecimate is a poignant reaction to the state of the world that has no false ambitions about singularly smashing the state.
Suda-51 Strikes Again By Levi Rubeck • April 11th, 2018 That Suda voice just comes naturally to him, it is his default mode of expression.
The Vaporwave Aesthetic of Broken Reality By Khee Hoon Chan • January 2nd, 2018 Broken Reality, a puzzle-adventure title set in a disquietingly bright and gaudy virtual reality, embodies the vaporwave aesthetic, but it’s decidedly anti-capitalist.
Gunsword, Casual Repartee, Chess and Dragonlance By Levi Rubeck • November 28th, 2017 Gunsword whipped my head right over with delicious high fantasy visuals that brought to mind the Larry Elmore Dragonlance covers of my youth, and the only thing better than guns and swords is the fusion of the two.
The Significance of Raji’s Indian Heroine By Khee Hoon Chan • November 28th, 2017 To have a young Indian girl front Raji: An Ancient Epic is not only a bold statement, but also an affirmative one.
The Comforts of Playing With Food in Nour By Khee Hoon Chan • October 10th, 2017 One food I grew to love during my childhood is actually broccoli — not because of how it tastes, mind you, but because of its endless possibilities for play.
Rail Theory Stops You From Feeling Heroic By Khee Hoon Chan • August 8th, 2017 Rail Theory, an upcoming survival horror videogame, feels like the sequel Dead Space 3 could have been.
Dead Cells : Variety is the Spice of Death By Sam Desatoff • June 8th, 2017 The game plays like a combination of Castlevania and a 2D Diablo, and if that sounds like a good combination, that’s because it is.
Run Like a Girl in Battle Princess Madelyn By Khee Hoon Chan • April 4th, 2017 Ridding the world of evil is no longer just a man’s job, and Princess Madelyn dashes across the screen with ease, slaying the wicked with her spears and magic.
In Pato Box, Revenge Is a Dish Served With a Flurry Of Punches By Khee Hoon Chan • March 28th, 2017 “Full of nuance and quiet unease, Pato Box warrants your interest, subverting the fighting genre by sprinkling in elements of crime fiction and drama.”
Cat Quest Is Playing Dress-Up With Your Disgruntled Tabby By Khee Hoon Chan • March 21st, 2017 “Cats do whatever the hell they please in real life, but in Cat Quest, you can make them do things for your perverse enjoyment without consequences.”
The Fall of Lazarus Warns Us About the Dangers of an AI Takeover By Khee Hoon Chan • March 7th, 2017 “Such stories tap into our fear of technology’s destructive powers, and have been around since the industrial revolution”
The Politics of Ascension By Sam Desatoff • January 19th, 2017 Sam Desatoff is heir to an uneasy throne in his Expeditions: Viking beta review.
Kyofu no Sekai Brings the Twisted Worlds of Junji Ito to Life By Khee Hoon Chan • January 17th, 2017 Kyofu no sekai, an in-development card-based videogame about cosmic horror, has captured the enigmatic spirit of Ito’s stories extraordinarily well.
Dragons and Questing and Building! Oh My! By Matt Sayer • October 5th, 2016 Dragon Quest Builders shows that crafting is better with direction and friends. Especially when those friends are Blue Slimes.
Beholder: The Apartment Management Sim for the Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist By Megan Condis • September 26th, 2016 “I didn’t want to do them harm, but I also didn’t mind invading their privacy, especially when I could convince myself that it was for their own good.”
Nioh’s Alpha Demo: Not Just Another Souls-Like By Guest Post • May 4th, 2016 Nioh brings a lot to the table that not all titles in the genre can claim. It pushes the Souls-like genre to the limit.
The Daily Chthonicle: A Letter to the (Next) Editor By Declan Taggart • April 22nd, 2016 Driven insane by the unspellcheckable Lovecraftian horror of it all.
Möira vs The Tropes: How 8-Bit Is It? By Declan Taggart • April 7th, 2016 Ticking off the old-school gaming tropes in Onagro Studios’s new Medroidvania-tinged platformer
Wartile: Hexes and Pose(s) By Matt Sayer • March 15th, 2016 Wartile aims to fuse the essence of tabletop gaming with real-time action. So how’s it shaping up so far?
Hands on the Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders Moustache and Puzzles Simulator By Declan Taggart • January 29th, 2016 No one has ever glared at Jane Marple through eyes narrowed with suspicion and hate and thought: I bet she did it, the cold-blooded animal.
Thumper Dev Talks Star Wars, Braid, and the Weirdness of Playing Games By Tim Mulkerin • January 6th, 2016 Rhythm violence is coming in the form of Thumper, and we’re not talking about the cartoon rabbit.
Regression: A Scene from a Career in Decline By Declan Taggart • November 6th, 2015 Regression is so much like a TV movie. Every time I look at the cinema screen, I’m surprised. I think: Wow. Why’s this TV so big? And how did it get into our living room?
Rules of Engagement By Dennis Scimeca • April 8th, 2013 Emotional? Hardly. Dennis Scimeca is skeptical about the Battlefield 4 experience Electronic Arts is promising.
Hot Miami Injection By Cara Ellison • August 13th, 2012 Cara Ellison introduces the neon-soaked ultraviolence of Hotline Miami.
Toy Hunter: It Came from SDCC By Kenneth J. Lucas • July 12th, 2012 The Toy Hunter previews San Diego Comic-Con 2012 exclusives.
The App Hole: Jellybean By Don Becker • July 2nd, 2012 Thanks to some enterprising hackers, Don Becker has the latest version of Android on his phone. How does it compare to previous versions?
E3 2012: Mark of the Ninja By Brian Taylor • June 15th, 2012 Brian Taylor channels his inner assassin as he swoons for Klei’s upcoming side-scrolling stealth game, Mark of the Ninja.
E3 2012: The Last of Us By Steve Haske • June 14th, 2012 Steve Haske was mostly disappointed by E3 2012, but the grim realities of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us were a saving grace.
E3 2012: The ZombiU Bachelor of Arts By Sam Machkovech • June 14th, 2012 Sam Machkovech goes hands-on with ZombiU and scares himself silly.
E3 2012: Dishonored By Stu Horvath • June 13th, 2012 Stu Horvath was awash in blood and death during the Dishonored demo at E3 2012. He loved every splatter of it.
E3 2012: Quantum Conundrum By Charles Francis Moran VI • June 11th, 2012 Chuck Moran saw a bajillion games at E3 2012, but Kim Swift’s Quantum Conundrum was his favorite.
