Major spoilers for Tacoma and minor spoilers for Night in the Woods follow in Jacob Geller’s look at the employee’s sometimes unenviable lot – both inside and outside of videogames. In January of 2009, a […]
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Downward Spiral: Horus Station
Karl Moon flings himself out of the airlock and into breathless zero G first person VR to take in the atmosphere of Downward Spiral: Horus Station. Loneliness and isolation, the hallmarks of much great science […]
Door Kickers: Action Squad
Jacob Geller reviews PixelShard‘s Door Kicker: Action Squad. From a detached, design-only perspective, Door Kickers: Action Squad does very little wrong. It’s a pixel-y throwback with unexpected levels of tactical depth, an experience that controls […]
Guacamelee! 2
Does the sequel to 2013’s Guacamelee! improve upon the original recipe, or is this avocado action underripe? Brian Edwards taste-tests… At the end of Guacamelee! we got to see legendary luchador Juan Aguacate take down […]
The Spectrum Retreat
An assignment far more sinister than a retro gaming conference, Leah Haydu braves the lobby of The Spectrum Retreat. Hotels are kind of creepy. That’s not just me, right? There’s something a little unsettling about […]
A rapturous refrain
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 type this is hypnotic. A rhythm to write to… to […]
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Ahead of our podcast later this year, Paul Brown reviews Ninja Theory’s Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice “There is a space I want us to fill. Common wisdom says that this space doesn’t exist. I’m calling this […]
Grand Theft Auto IV: Perhaps this time things will be different
David Rushe finds returning to Rockstar’s decade-old Grand Theft Auto IV surprisingly refreshing. It was ten years ago that I did two things for the first time in my life that I have never done […]
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 hail of bullets if you know you won’t actually die? […]
Lost solutions: The psychology behind forgetting puzzles
You know the frustration of returning to a game you’ve beaten before but finding you’ve forgotten how to solve it? Joshua Robinson looks into why this occurs. The last trophy I earned in Portal 2 […]
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