On this week’s episode of The Arena, Erik Kersting, Daniel Marques, and I played Street Fighter V. This week, we continued our tour of the games featured at the Intel World Open, slated to lead up to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo. Nation-based… Continue Reading
In continuation of our animal-themed month, we had a go with Goat Simulator, a game meant to poke fun at the simulator genre by putting the player in control of a goat who is a device of pure destruction. The game embraces the… Continue Reading
The difference between “traditional” sports and Esports has been a long-debated subject. What defines an “Esport”? This week on Erik Kersting’s excellent Twitch show The Arena, he, along with guest hosts Janelle Malagon and visiting Fulbright Scholar Daniel Marques, probed… Continue Reading
This week on our weekly show The Arena I had the unique pleasure of learning how to play Realm Royale, Hi-Rez’s battle royale medieval shooter game, with Janelle Malagon in the role of teacher. While I have played some battle… Continue Reading
This week on Lunch Zone, Nathan continued the Spook-tober theme with the 2016 horror adventure game The Count Lucanor by developer Baroque Decay. In it, players assume the role of a snotty 10-year-old who’s mad at his mom because his… Continue Reading
In the last week of September we played Superflight. Superflight was created by GrizzlyGames (@_grizzlygames), a student run indie company in Germany. It is a game that is something like a third person flight simulator in which you play a… Continue Reading
[Cross-posted to Doubt is an Art.] This past Wednesday, the Lunch Zone explored Parallax, a stark and yet somehow intimate puzzle game. The resolute black and white imagery, the abstract and icon-marked shapes, and sense of containment from being apparently… Continue Reading
As Nathan begins the latest foray into Yooka-Laylee (his 3rd for The Lunch Zone,) he muses aloud: “I was struggling on whether or not to play this again because I’m not sure what else there is to say about it.”… Continue Reading
Lunch Zone – August 21,2019 YOOKA-LAYLEE Playing: Nathan Humpal Present: T. Malaby, E. Kersting, R. House, K. Brajevich, S. Moulthrop This game is “spiritual successor” to BANJO-KAZOOEY – which is what you call a crowd-sourced imitation when you don’t… Continue Reading
Serious Play August 16, 2019 In the room: Nathan Humpal (playing), Kelly Brajevich This week, the Lunch Zoners played Playtonic Games’ 2017 platformer Yooka–Laylee, which borrows off nostalgia from the developer’s previous experiences creating the cult classic N64 title, Banjo-Kazooie… Continue Reading