Ah yes, this time of year. The one where I get to throw away some of my usual rules on what games I can review and can look more broadly…
indie
The Xbox Game Pass is doing its damned best to get me to subscribe to it. I’ve avoided it mostly because I already have the majority of the back catalogue…
I’ve tried to think about what it is about loosely or completely disconnected narrative games that irks me so much. To be sure I find interest in stories where there’s…
Believe me, it’s not by active choice that I’ve been leaving such long periods between reviews, it’s been out of necessity. That doesn’t mean I haven’t had the time to…
It’s been almost a decade since Journey was released and you will still find its influence weaved throughout the indie game scene. This is a testament to what it represented…
Some of the most challenging aspects of crafting a game is doing the things right that won’t get noticed. The minutiae that fades into the background can often be as…
Bringing on big name actors to a game is a bigger risk than you might first think. Whilst their star power is certain to draw attention from a wider audience…
The public discourse on reviewing things has long since shifted away from subtly. No longer can something simply be good enough for its own sake, everything must fall into one…
It’s rare that I’ll sit down to play a game and then not want to get back up again until it’s finished. Part of that is getting older and having…
Back in the day there was an unspoken rule about a game’s length being indicative of its quality. For some reason we all thought that games that took longer to…