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Revving the Engine
In a screenshot from the videogame Snacko, a small purple cat tends to a garden of vegetables that's part of a larger farm. In the background is a stone well, a small farm house, a barn, and several farm animals like cows, goats and chickens.

Happy Place

By Melissa King • July 28th, 2022

The co-founders of Bluecurse Studios, wife and husband Erisa Liu and Jordan Gonzalez, want to give you a cozy digital getaway – their upcoming game, Snacko.

Revving the Engine

Bringing Back the Good Times

By Melissa King • February 23rd, 2022

The On3D Studios development team chats about their upcoming indie game D.A.N.G.E.R. Team, an action thriller borrowing its style from classic spy films.

Exploits Feature

D(E)fiant Love

By Melissa King • January 3rd, 2022

The world may be fucked, but we have each other.

Revving the Engine
A dramatic close-up on a golden roman statue stoically gazing past his extended arm.

Mods & Mythology

By Melissa King • November 24th, 2021

The Australian Writers’ Guild Award-winning and critically acclaimed The Forgotten City had humble beginnings as a Skyrim mod.

The key art for Catsperience, which features the head of a black and white cat wearing a crown and a ruff. Behind the cat is a rich pattern consisting of cat heads, paw prints and leaves as well as a scratch mark in the center. In front of the cat is the title “Catsperience” in a fun, fancy and yellow font.

The Full Catsperience

By Melissa King • November 3rd, 2021

Everybody gets to be a cat in this charming 3D puzzler.

Letter to a Heroine
Kainé, a young woman with white hair pulled up into a looped braid, bandages around her neck and shoulder and knotted elastic cord around her torso, looks toward the viewer while facing sideways. She’s in a room with white tile on the floor and large, tall windows obscured by cream curtains.

Kainé

By Melissa King • August 24th, 2021

Just once, let someone take care of you.

Letter to a Heroine
Aerith Gainsborough, a young woman with brown hair and green eyes, stares directly at the image viewer. Her hair is styled in loose curls for her visit to Don Corneo. Behind her, the Wall Market lights dazzle out of focus.

Aerith

By Melissa King • May 11th, 2021

For the one who most needed a phoenix down but couldn’t have one.

Letter to a Heroine
A character from Bloodborne sitting ominously in a chair.

Lady Maria

By Melissa King • March 24th, 2021

Ave Maria!

Letter to a Heroine

Mercy

By Melissa King • March 11th, 2021

You are not looking well.

Revving the Engine
A robot person wielding a weapon.

Creature in the Well: Between the Known and the Unknown

By Melissa King • March 2nd, 2021

“Every aspect of gameplay is a teaching moment”

Letter to a Heroine

Mei

By Melissa King • February 5th, 2021

“News stories don’t always have to be major, they just have to matter.”

Letter to a Heroine

Fischl

By Melissa King • January 7th, 2021

Was it lonely, being left in your library by yourself? I was lonely like you once, too.

Letter to a Heroine

Fire Keeper

By Melissa King • November 30th, 2020

Will you continue to guard the flame? Will you return to as it always has been?

Letter to a Heroine

Dear Krile

By Melissa King • October 28th, 2020

Dear Krile,

While you might not get as much attention as your fellow Scions of the Seventh Dawn, you’ll always be my favorite member.

Letter to a Heroine

Isabelle

By Melissa King • September 28th, 2020

Melissa King appreciates Isabelle from Animal Crossing.

Feature Excerpt

Talkin’ ‘Bout Bugsnax

By Melissa King • August 28th, 2020

A look at how Kero Kero Bonito came up with gaming’s happiest bop of the summer.

Pets Feature

Seven Videogame Chickens, Listed from Least to Most Likely to Kick My Ass

By Melissa King • June 7th, 2019

Look at all these chickens.

Not Your Wife

By Melissa King • December 3rd, 2018

Don’t underestimate the woman who levels you up.

Probable Tropes in Persona 5, In Order From Most to Least Likely

By Melissa King • May 11th, 2016

Time for more predictions about a very Japanese game coming to a store near you!

A Diversity Tour of PAX East 2016

By Melissa King • April 28th, 2016

The Diversity Lounge was a bust, but we have plenty of panels trying to fill in.

Probable Tropes in Star Ocean 5, In Order From Most to Least Likely

By Melissa King • April 14th, 2016

Star Ocean 5 approaches and we have an ordered list of predictions. Feel free to play along at home!

Let’s Journey Into the Sandsverse

By Melissa King • April 6th, 2016

The internet has evolved into a monkey and a tapir selling us goods.

A Toast to Reconciliation

By Melissa King • March 30th, 2016

What happens when you want to settle your differences with a video game character?

Stardew Valley: Love Who You Actually Love

By Melissa King • March 16th, 2016

Farming simulators are finally letting you follow your heart, not societal mores.

What Yarny Teaches Us About Social Media

By Melissa King • March 2nd, 2016

Who would have thought that the adventurous, little ball of yarn doubles as a highly effective social media coordinator?

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