There are few games that have managed to sell me on a single video clip that I’ve stumbled across randomly, but Class of ’09 is one of them. Of course…
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The difference between the side scrollers of yesteryear and today could not be more stark. For a genre that grew from humble roots of simply being able to go backwards…
One thing I find fascinating is exploring media that wasn’t made for me as an audience. Whilst most content created today contains a lot of similar themes, tropes and ideas…
The media we consume is often a reflection of the times we find ourselves in; bringing to the surface ideas, concerns and fears that we collectively share. For many years…
There was a time once, long ago, where the time a game spent in development was a good indicator of the level of polish you could expect from it. Blizzard’s…
For a creator how their creation will be experience can matter just as much as the creation itself. With games this seems obvious when say, considering the difference between playing…
Back in the day I used to have a rule (indeed I had many!) when it came to reviewing games: I had to finish them before I could review it….
So, to preface, I’m a pretty keen homebrewer with a couple years experience under my belt. I got started with it because we have an overabundance of apples from the…
In college my teacher for the course of “Literature on the Internet” (which was still a weird thing back in 2001) asked us to perform a simple task: find her…
The speed at which games can now spawn new genres and imitators is surprising, even to this long time gamer who’s seen dozens of trends come and go. The latest…