When I undertake a review for a game, I play it with one thing in mind, if I had to describe the title in one sentence to one of my non-gaming friends, what would I say? For most games, this one-liner is simple to come up with. For something like Fortnite, I would sell it …
Cults management sims are wacky. Whether we’re sacrificing our followers to an Eldritch being from the great beyond or poisoning the punch for giggles, cult sims offer an excellent power trip for the morally ambiguous entrepreneur. While most cult management sims have stuck to core elements of managing a secret society, like Cult of the …
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Here’s a challenge for you. Think back to the era of gaming from the mid-2000s and work backward. The challenge is, can you think of any games that don’t involve some form of combat, conflict, or violence? There aren’t many that spring to mind, right? Well, that’s because there wasn’t really a market for games …
Scorn, one of the most unique-looking titles to release in 2022, was heavily inspired by the artwork of two artists you’re probably unintentionally familiar with. H.G. Geiger and Zdzisław Beksiński. Geiger was the visionary visual artist for the original Alien movie, and Zdzisław Beksiński reached internet fame with his confusing, grotesque, and darkly expressive paintings. …
The gaming industry, much like any industry tied to media, is an ever-moving conveyor belt of content. While it might slow down now and again, it doesn’t stay that way for long. One minute we are talking about a groundbreaking title that has set new standards for those that come after with unparalleled gameplay, world …
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There’s an age-old technique in writing that states things are more satisfying when they come in threes. I can say without hesitation that after playing through FlyAway’s Triple Take, this is not entirely true. In fact, after sinking nearly eight hours into the punishingly difficult precision platformer, it wasn’t the fact that I had to …
Accessibility is of paramount importance in video games. For example, if someone struggles to hear the dialogue, subtitles can give you the same information in text form. If someone can’t distinguish between two colors, they can be made more distinct with symbols or a custom color palette. And if someone struggles to get through a …
With each passing year, the Indie gaming library grows, and so does my backlog of games that I ever so desperately try to complete to keep up with this onslaught of new titles. The AAA scene may be delaying projects left, right, and center, but indie developers have continued to quietly go about their business …
When I was younger, I found a lot of solace in embedding myself in the media I was consuming, whether that was a film, a book, or, more often than not, a video game. As a child with an incredibly overactive imagination, I would devote hours to losing myself in scenarios where I became the …
“New York is a sucked orange”. That was philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson’s indictment, anyway: the city as a depraved cesspit bled dry of any value. It’s the antithesis of the old metaphor insinuating a limitless bounty of opportunity: the Big Apple. Or perhaps those two analogies are more interwoven than they first seem. In the …
