Well, I lied. I thought that my new Switch, all covered in its glorious Zelda branding, would meet the same fate as its predecessor. This was the price of admission…
visual novel
Some games trigger an internal battle for me: one side arguing that it’s easy to judge a game’s merits by a few key factors whilst the other pushes me to…
There’s only a handful of developers I get excited about these days. I mean sure, the big AAA titles from the usual suspects still manage to grab my attention, but…
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…
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…
Can you be nostalgic for someone else’s life? That’s a question that kept running through my head as I was playing We are OFK as, to me, it speaks directly…
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…
I stopped looking at games to back on Kickstarter quite a while ago as it just seemed to encourage developers to take far, far too long to actually release something…
Of all the new genres that found life in the indie developer renaissance of the last decade the one that I’ve had the least interest in is visual novels. Given…
We’re now at the point where Supergiant Games doesn’t need much of an introduction. Their breakout hit Bastion won many people over with its unique visual style and expertly delivered running…