Alex Maskill reviews Giant Sparrow’s recent narrative adventure, What Remains of Edith Finch NB: Some readers may consider details in this review to be at least minor spoilers. What Remains […]
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Batman: The Telltale Series – The Complete Season 1
Alex Maskill reviews the entire first season of Telltale’s take on Bob Kane’s mammalian vigilante Why is Batman a sympathetic character? It’s a weird question when you really think about […]
Batman: The Telltale Series Episode 1 – Realm of Shadows
One of the creakiest old clichés in any discussion of comic books is that superheroes are the modern equivalent to ancient mythologies. DC Comics allude to a conscious ‘pantheon’ of […]
Epistory – Typing Chronicles
Two origami snakes weave their way through a dense forest of paper trees towards me with a hiss. A single touch from either means death. I whip around and loose […]
Homefront
As a kid, reading through every games magazine I could get my hands on, one thing that gave my perception of the medium so much texture was the presence of […]
Rocksmith… the final word
We made it, you guys. Over the course of about four months, I have played through around 60 hours of guitar practice aided by Rocksmith 2014. This is, I’ll remind […]
Anatomy
It’s strange to think that, not so long ago, horror games were thought to be a thing of the past. I grew up in the PS2 era, so I remember […]
A month with… Rocksmith
So first off, there’s going to be a format change from what was planned for my Rocksmith diaries. Rather than eight threadbare weekly blogs, I figure you all might appreciate […]
That Dragon, Cancer
“I didn’t just lose a child, I had a child.” This is how Sara Curtis opens “In The Left Pocket, By My Heart”, an episode of the podcast ARRVLS, which […]
Mushihimesama (Bug Princess)
Cave-developed “bullet hell” shooters inhabit one of those niches which exist on the periphery of gamers’ awareness, but which you could go your whole life as a player without ever […]
A week with… Rocksmith
For someone who’s been playing guitar as long as I have – around six years – I’m astonishingly bad at guitar. You’d have thought you’d pick up more skill than […]
Cibele – Cane and Rinse
Play is intimate. There’s something inescapably personal and revealing about inhabiting a fantasy, about allowing these bizarre dream worlds to matter to us. Likewise, when game spaces are communal, when […]