It all started with that one spreadsheet: a trifle to amuse myself between bouts of frenzied editing and marathon writing sessions. It was called “the Database”—an inside joke shared by me and no one else—and it was my attempt at listing every videogame I had ever played in my life. At first, I thou
On my really optimistic days I think of the internet as this magical place where people from all over the world can come together and do things that are simply not possible without near instant access to vast amounts of data. On the days that are slightly less optimistic than that I see the internet
Over at freeindiegam.es, Terry Cavanagh, designer of really hard games like Super Hexagon and VVVVVV, has put together a list of his favorite free games from this year. These are great because you aren’t likely to hear these games mentioned anywhere else (aside from Become a Great Artist in Just 10
It’s the end of another year! And we’re celebrating it the only way people with our unique dispositions know how to: By quantifying it in a series of lists that we probably should have not spent as much time thinking about as we did, but were also powerless to stop! High Scores: The Top 25 Videogame
I don’t know about you, but my proverbial pile of incomplete shame – the list of games I’ve started, but never finished – is huge, growing, and seems to gnaw at me a little more every day. I harbor fond memories of the original Metroid Prime, and fantasize about finally picking it up again and finis
