This Mortal Coyle The Gothic Writer from Game of Vampires By Deirdre Coyle • May 29th, 2024 Do I love this game, or do I hate it? Am I being a downer because of latent mobile game snobbery?
Here's the Thing You’re Not Actually Mad At Mobile Games By Rob Rich • April 13th, 2023 Rob explains how all the mobile game hate isn’t really about mobile games at all.
Here's the Thing Missing Mission Europa By Rob Rich • August 13th, 2020 Rob’s favorite mobile game is something barely anyone has heard of and, due to Apple’s failure to support older software, it basically doesn’t exist anymore.
The Amazing Wholesomeness of Being a Grandma By David Shimomura • September 25th, 2018 Hungry Hearts Dinner is simply a very, very well-made game that does a fair amount of tugging at even the coldest heart strings.
War on Words: Mobile v. Handheld By David Shimomura • July 17th, 2018 It’s why the recent trend to enforce the artificial barrier between “mobile” and “handheld” is so tenuous and dangerous.
Florence and Collaborative Play By Daniel Schindel • July 13th, 2018 This was a deeper connection; the two of us were actively involved in an act of creation, the kind of authorship of a story that only a video game can provide.
Democracy 3 and the Absurdity of Government By Daniel Schindel • May 25th, 2018 No matter how much players derive pleasure from a challenge, the inherent appeal of sims is the illusion of control that they grant us.
Pocket Camp: An Exercise in Capitalist Banality By Khee Hoon Chan • December 7th, 2017 And if you’re a bourgeoisie Whale—what videogame companies call their biggest spenders who are willing to drop at least $100 per month on freemium games—well, you’ve exactly the corporate wet dream Nintendo wants to hook in.
Fallout Shelter Is a Deeply Dehumanizing Experience By Khee Hoon Chan • April 11th, 2017 “Don’t let the sunny, kitschy vibe of the game fool you; the vault you manage will be one of the most insidious vault experiments in Fallout lore.”
What’s in a game? By David Shimomura • January 30th, 2017 “I believe in the widest, biggest, most inclusive definition of videogames.”
