XYLA Entertainment’s Rush Bros is a tale of two brothers, Bass and Treble, together a superstar DJ duo. Sadly all is not well in the […]
Author: James Carter
Podcast special: an Interview with C.Y. Reid (failnaut)
A couple of months ago I recorded an interview with C.Y. Reid, also known as failnaut. It took me longer than it should to edit […]
Tale of Tales – Cane and Rinse No.81
Lo cunto de li cunti Independent developer, Tale Of Tales aims to create “emotionally rich interactive entertainment” whilst eschewing the “limitations of competitive play”. In […]
Dark Souls NG+ Quick Rinse – Friends, invasions and one dead Hydra
“I thought I’d put on a decent get-up for this party!” In this second of todays Souls Quick Rinse videos, Darren Gargette is joined by […]
Demon’s Souls Quick Rinse
“You fool. Don’t you understand? No one wishes to go on.” James Carter follows up this weeks Dark Souls podcast with a Quick Rinse of […]
My first death: a Dark Souls tale (Ages 16+)
I stand in front of the imposing edifice that houses Anor Londo’s equally daunting Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and I am lost in […]
“It’s not a game”
What do Antichamber, Bientôt l’été and Proteus have in common? ‘They’re all video games’ seems like an innocuous enough, if non-committal response, but is it […]
Bientôt l’été
A Sunday afternoon stroll along the beach, followed by a glass of merlot and a cigarette over a game of chess. These are the pursuits […]
Life Of Pixel
It seems the retro nostalgia bubble has no breaking point. Any and every video gaming platform is rich with games harking back to the ‘good […]
Hundreds
Quirky puzzle games with a simple core idea, a striking aesthetic and bundles of quick-to-play levels are not exactly in short supply on iOS, in […]
Far Cry 3
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” So said Albert Einstein, and (less notably, but […]
James Carter’s 2012
It’s New Year’s Eve and I sit next to the fire, mulling over previous years in video gaming as I’m prone to do on a […]