I wanted to write a brief piece to highlight Gone Home, and specifically its narrative. The way this little indie title goes about the business of creating narrative is something that every game developer should take note of, because it’s a rare example of a developer taking advantage of the…
Read MoreWith Madden 25 releasing… well, basically right now, I thought it would be a good opportunity to look back at the series and highlight some of my favourite ‘Madden Moments’ from over the years. I have not played every single release, but I have played most of them spanning from…
Read MoreGoichi Suda has done it again. He’s created a game (Killer is Dead) and released it to a mass outcry of misogyny from the critical community. It’s happened in his games before (see Lollipop Chainsaw) and once again the people making the complaints are, in taking a very simplistic approach…
Read MoreOuya has found itself in a spot of bad PR recently. First the company’s official Twitter feed retweeted an enthusiastic fan’s tweet that may or may not have shown Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers (NES) being illegally played on an Ouya console and now it has briefly released an advert on…
Read MoreAll these years later, there’s still a lot of chatter about Minecraft around the Internet, and indeed it still sells like hotcakes; it’s sitting right at the top of the retail sales charts in some regions and on many iOS app stores it has settled comfortably into a permanent top-5…
Read MoreAs a quick summary for the people that haven’t been following the Xbox One that closely; it’s a console that was originally announced as always-online, would not play second hand games and required Kinect to work. None of that was especially popular amongst the vocal kind of people that inhabit…
Read MoreThe Wii U is starting to close in on its first year anniversary on the market, and sales figures aside, it has earned itself a dedicated following courtesy of games like ZombiU and Pikmin 3. One of the biggest features of the console was always going to be MiiVerse; a…
Read MoreI’ve recently finished the main plot of Attack of the Friday Monsters on the Nintendo 3DS. That wasn’t much of a feat actually as the game only took two hours and thirty minutes. And yet after finishing it I couldn’t help but think that I would love for more games…
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, we spoke with representatives of three different analysis firms who specialised in the video-games industry, gathering their forecasts and perspectives on various matters concerning the industry at present. The topics of interest included the controversy on used games, concerns towards games pricing and AAA development costs, as…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I can’t say any of the following chain of events surprised me: Dragon’s Crown gets released, and gets a positive write up from IGN, Gamespot and other sites who see it as their duty to simply tell audiences whether a game is fun or not. Polygon…
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