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? […]
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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 […]
Raging Justice
Fan of vintage brawlers Michiel Kroder reviews MakinGames‘ nostalgic, rambunctious debut. “Whatever happened to the scrolling beat ‘em ups, the Double Dragons, the Final Fights and the Streets of Rages?” It’s an often heard lament […]
What Remains of Edith Finch and the friendly shadow of death
In which Jacob Geller ponders gaming’s inextricably intertwined relationship with our inevitable expiration. NB: Spoilers beyond. We recommend that you play through What Remains of Edith Finch before reading this piece. I had a great-aunt […]
Flashing before his eyes: The nature of time in Gorogoa
Jacob Geller attempts to unravel Gorogoa’s knottiest riddle. NB: Spoilers beyond. We recommend that you play through Gorogoa before reading this piece. Gorogoa initially feels like an experience totally unshackled from our usual expectations of […]
What never lived cannot die: Alienation, architecture, and NaissanceE
Jacob Geller explores another otherworldly environment, this time that of Limasse Five‘s “obscure and magical first person exploration game”, NaissanceE There’s a moment in NaissanceE, the 2014 game by Limasse Five, in which the words […]
An anxious gamer
Brian Edwards considers how our personal propensities can shape the game designs that we relish, and those which send us screaming in the other direction. I was playing through Persona 4: Golden on my Vita. […]
A planet of my own: Subnautica and the meaning of ‘survival’
Jacob Geller explains how he found himself rapt by Subnautica’s alluring undersea environs. Eight years ago or so, I sunk literally hundreds of hours into Minecraft. Many of the systems the game has today weren’t […]
Fan, I am – becoming the Ultimate Fan in Rare Replay
Our former Rare employee Darren Gargette has recently proven himself to be one of their biggest fans too. On the 28th March 2018, at about 9pm I finally earned the last of the 330 milestones […]
Interview with a Life Force: The Salamander super-fan
New contributor Joshua Robinson recently had the pleasure of talking with Salamander/Life Force obsessive Madd74 about his dedication to the classic shoot ’em up. Konami’s long-running shoot ‘em up series Gradius (1985) has spawned numerous […]
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