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N++: Iteration, movement, and the screen
Not a throwback, but differently modern.
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The quiet importance of the Minecraft soundtrack
C418’s soundtrack for Minecraft makes good on ambient music’s promises.
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Fallout 3 is actually for babies
For those who play games at a steady—some would say glacial—pace, achievements become unmoored from the gameworld itself. They become associated with life events—I completed that level on my birthday and that other level the day before I got dumped. You age with a game, if not at its exact pace. Spe
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These typewriters will mess with your mind
This is an article about typewriters, but let’s start by discussing the difference between taste and flavour. Taste describes the five senses inside your mouth: sweet, sour, salt, bitter, and umami. Flavour, on the other hand, connotes a more holistic sensory experience. It combines taste with your
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Exploring the mysterious space of space station Tacoma
We talk to Fullbright’s Steve Gaynor about everything but his owl(?) tattoo.
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Skyrim mod turns its highly-detailed fantasy world into a cartoon
Skyrim, the fifth installation of the long-running Elder Scrolls series, is known among other things for its intensive, high quality graphics and level of visual detail. Even then, it’s common for players on PC to install several graphical enhancement mods for even more realistic lighting, water, an
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A conversation with Squinky about the conversations we have in our heads
Exploring identity through the conversations we have inside our head.
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Beg for your life in this experimental game about execution
We’re used to the first-person shooter being a series of gunshots executed through bared teeth. Bang, bang, momentarily duck behind cover to heal, bang bang. That’s the usual rhythm. They’re shooting galleries that throw bodies of various intelligence and armor at us to shoot. There’s little thought
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Reel in horror at Layers of Fear’s freakish twist on fine art
There’s something eerie about da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine—that distant stare, the strangely serpentine choice of rodent, the utter darkness of the backdrop, perhaps? Even before the trailer for Layers of Fear transforms the subject of da Vinci’s portrait work into a skeletal atrocity gripping a s
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Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is a triumph
Say hello to the new wave of walking simulators.
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It’s best to play this roguelike the same way you’d read The Grapes of Wrath
Have you read The Grapes of Wrath? If you’ve been through the American school system you probably just hissed through your teeth at the sight of its title. For bringing up those aching memories, I apologize. But if you did study it, you’ll be familiar with how John Steinbeck structured the chapters
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Badblood beckons you to the hunt with its stylish new trailer
The battles in Badblood are ones of wit and wariness. Like Manhunt meets hide-and-seek, two trained killers sneak around in a field, hunting and fleeing from the other as the screen orientation constantly shifts to mask their movements. It’ll take strong spatial awareness and alertness to find your