On the Necessity of Bombast By David Shimomura • December 19th, 2016 “Now, for the first time, I understand the importance of the yearly, over the top, Michael Bay-rific explosion fest.”
The Moment I Embraced Being A Villain in Tyranny By Charles Singletary • December 16th, 2016 Tyranny is an RPG that employs you as a judge within an evil empire. In games with similar concepts there’s redemption to be had, but not here. This is how I came to terms with that.
The Robo-Animal Circus Grand Prix By Jose Cardoso • December 16th, 2016 “As for the wacky robotic-animals-as-stunt-performers premise of Excitebots: Trick Racing? It’s on its own plane.”
The Games I’m Forcing My Captive Family to Play This Holiday Season By Sam Desatoff • December 15th, 2016 “Games are a great way to stem that holiday stress and bring joy back to the season.”
A Digital Home For The Holidays By Matthew Byrd • December 15th, 2016 “What I wanted was a place where I could bask in the spirit of the season without feeling like a complete outsider.”
Are Games Really Better With Friends? By Matt Sayer • December 13th, 2016 Watching a bad movie with good friends can be a blast, but it doesn’t make the movie any less awful. Shouldn’t the same rule apply to games?
Pokémon Red and Blue Reflect Your Worldview As a Kid By Khee Hoon Chan • December 13th, 2016 “Minor but illogical details, like how my poor mum couldn’t afford a bed while I had an entire room to myself, were inconsequential to my eight-year-old self.”
The Year of the Secondary Character By David Shimomura • December 12th, 2016 “Secondary characters have always been around, but 2016 feels like the year that they exceeded their “secondary” status in important and necessary ways.”
The Appeal of Simplicity By Sam Desatoff • December 8th, 2016 “I have a problem, and it involves board games: I have too many of them.”
Spilled Ink Final Fantasy XV Isn’t a Road Trip; It’s a Day Spent Running Errands for the Folks. By Austin Price • December 7th, 2016 “Unlike the best of road trips, in FFXV, there is no urgency to your motions, no sense of propulsion driving you forward.”
