The power of nostalgia is undisputed but it’s also a trap that far too many game developers have fallen into. There’s been so many remakes, demakes and other attempts to…
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Does anyone remember The Last Guardian? In that game you’re put in charge of an AI companion that you have to wrangle into doing stuff so you can solve puzzles…
It’s 2012, the indie renaissance is well underway and the seminal title from thatgamecompany, Journey, is released. It’s not the first game to put you in a big world to…
Early 2000s, 1980s cars, music festivals. If I didn’t know better I would’ve guessed the developers of Keep Driving had rifled through my Facebook post history and decided to make…
There was a time when big releases were almost a social event unto themselves, a kind of cultural nexus point that drew in all and sundry whose only connection was…
Cast your mind back to high school English classes, the ones where they decided try to introduce Shakespeare to a severely disinterested bunch of teenagers (I count myself among them…
Some games just speak to you. I am a 40 year old Dad of 2 and with that comes some things, some DLC if you will Whilst my condition hasn’t…
Indulge me for a moment will you. I have…a lot of thoughts and feelings about how I found myself playing Road 96 and what it means more generally to me….
I wouldn’t call myself a fan of Indiana Jones. I mean sure, I’ve seen a few of the movies and they’re fine but that’s about as far as my interaction…
The gaming public often looks to the indie scene for the new innovations; those experimental features that $_BIG_PUBLISHER would deem too risky for inclusion in a blockbuster title. There are…