One of the more fun parts of E3 is running into developers who are showing their games off unofficially – that is, running it on a laptop or mobile device showing it off to anyone they can flag down rather than at a proper booth. Feels like I run into at least one every year….
While playing Shape of the World, there were moments where I was so focused on the game that everything else around me faded. The beautiful colors and soothing sounds of its world had me completely enraptured. It was the perfect escape from all the noise and lights of E3. Shape of the World drops you…
Microsoft’s annual press conference, seeped in the emerald green tones that have become a unique staple of its entertainment branding for years. MS elected to start its show off with a bang, by showcasing Halo 5: Guardians, and its featured conflict between two of its headlining franchise characters, the ubiquitous Master Chief, and the newer…
On Monday, I had the opportunity to speak with the folks at Midboss – Matt Conn, John James, Toni Rocca, and Philip Jones – about their game Read Only Memories, an old-school adventure game set in a cyberpunk-styled San Francisco inspired by games like Snatcher, and a bit about general LGBTQ representation in videogames. Enjoy! [bandcamp…
It seems almost fitting that my experience with the first part of Dark Souls 2’s Crowns of the Fallen Kings DLC trilogy – Crown of the Sunken King – began with all my equipment broken. I was given control of a standard warrior archetype wielding a Longsword and a shield, only both of those things…
