James Carter harks at the importance of the use of sound in the BioShock games. Listening to the gentle click-clack of my keyboard as I […]
Author: James Carter
The loneliest number
James Carter excogitates upon the idiosyncrasies of playing co-op with AI in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands. Is it a sacrifice to run into a […]
James’ games of 2016
Cane and Rinse’s James Carter considers what worked for him and what didn’t among the new videogames that he played during 2016. What on Earth […]
*Right Stick* to interact
Control schemes are crafted across different games, across multiple generations to form part of the lexicon of gaming. First person shooter? It’ll play like Call […]
That Day We Left and the exploration of the real-world
InnerVoid Interactive aim to follow a rich vein of indie games into the exploration of real-world settings and themes with That Day We Left. I […]
The Witness Quick Rinse
James takes a jaunt around the opening area of The Witness. Don’t worry, there’ll be no puzzle solutions beyond the opening tutorial area. The Witness […]
Are you gonna play my way?
With that 16-piece Justice League jigsaw you got stuck on over the festive holidays, or pulling on your favourite jeans that must’ve shrunk in the […]
Cover me! – Akai Katana
The cover below shows us that the game in question is… a) really anime b) a classic meld of 1940s era wartime and Japanese warrior […]
The Beginning
The past decade or so has seen players afforded increasingly extensive access to, and communication with the creators of their favourite videogames and videogames commentary. […]
Mallet’s mallet
“July Ann does not have a boyfriend”, I am reliably informed by one of Radiohammer’s loading screen tool tips immediately after two pervert scientists have […]
Old dog, new leaf
Destiny is emblematic of the sort of videogames that killed my desire to play much of anything in the past couple of months. The mainstay […]
An approximation of reality
“My main Game Boy memory is my Nan thinking the music to Tetris was her hearing aid going batshit…” Late-night, anecdotal Tweets are always fun, […]