Feature Excerpt Friday Nights in the Hostile Environment By Rob Haines • January 28th, 2019 British developer PanicBarn’s Not Tonight offers a Brexit-flavored critique of the past ten years of the hostile environment.
The World Ends With Youth By Rob Haines • October 29th, 2015 “The epitome of teenage isolation, Neku tried to understand other people, but his total lack of adult empathy makes them intrinsically unknowable, an unsolvable enigma.”
Treasure: The Moment By Rob Haines • August 4th, 2015 “Press A. Pray You Aren’t Torn Asunder.” Rob Haines on the history of the treasure chest and the infamous Mimics of Dark Souls.
Summer Fun Games By Owen R. Smith, Joe DeMartino, Michael Edwards and Rob Haines • July 7th, 2014 It’s summer and that means trips to the beach, lounging by the pool and vacations in the woods. We’ve got a list of amazing games for all your summer adventures.
A Place to Rest Your Head By Rob Haines • August 27th, 2013 At the end of a hard day’s heroism, sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your name.
The Road to Ruin By Rob Haines • March 11th, 2013 Rob Haines worries that always-online gaming is a road to a digital dark age.
Living Again By Rob Haines • March 7th, 2013 Rob Haines contemplates the nature of fractured realities when confronted with the physical presence of one’s own repeated death.
On the Verge of Rapture By Rob Haines • January 22nd, 2013 Rob Haines is repeatedly awed by BioShock‘s Rapture, but he finds each time that it’s the game itself that stops him from becoming fully immersed.
From the Ashes: The Death of an Arcade By Rob Haines • September 10th, 2012 Rob Haines recounts the death – and rebirth – of the arcade on the Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare.
