I made a rule for myself early on when I started reading reviews: don’t read anyone elses until after I’ve posted my own. The reason for the rule is simple,…
Games
One of the things I’ve had to come to grips with over the 13 years (!) I’ve been reviewing games is the slow but steady drift in my own preferences…
Before Annapurna started branding itself as the publisher for the weird and wonderful world of experimental indie titles they really had a hard time breaking through to mainstream. To be…
I fucking did it; I got gud. You see, there’s always this trepidation when it comes to a new soulsborne game: is this the one, the game, which finally breaks…
There’s a lot to be said for games that hone in on a core game play idea and ruthlessly pursue that without the additional cruft that seems to plague every…
Retro shooters (which I’ve recently found out are now, somewhat ironically, called Boomer Shooters) and I don’t have the greatest history together. The improvements that have been made in the…
It’s the early 90’s and we’re on a family trip down to the coast for a weekend away. We’d stay in one of the on-site tents, large enough to fit…
The Witness stands out for many reasons but chief among them, for me at least, was the idea that a meticulously crafted game could still fail at its prime directive:…
I’ve had (and still do, for reasons that’ll become self evident) an itch to play a good city builder for sometime. There’s been a few decent candidates that have been…
Oh boy, I thought I knew what it was like to be short on time, but the last month has shown me what it is truly to have zero time…