{Cross-posted} I have something of a confession to make. I’m a big Final Fantasy fan. It’s one of the series that got me into videogames back in the SNES days. Throughout high school, during the “PlayStation era,” those games… Continue Reading
It’s October and that means, like every other person worth knowing, I’ve been consuming only the spookiest of entertainment media. In the case of videogames, I started the month circling back to some survival horror titles I had missed (namely,… Continue Reading
The following is an example paper I wrote for my students in a Videogames: history and theories course. You can find the instructions for the assignment here. Catherine: Full Body (2019) is a “romantic horror story” in which a… Continue Reading
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the games I spent a lot of time with during our mass social exile. The middle of March might usually be rather late for this kind of year-end retrospective, but if we learned anything these… Continue Reading
Over the past week or so, I’ve been catching up with a game I missed out on the first time around: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. Despite being a spin-off of the Mario franchise, there’s a uniqueness to the world… Continue Reading
Last week, an obscure little videogame called Cyberpunk 2077 was released quietly to absolutely zero over-hyped expectations. For the people who happened across it, it proved to be pretty good. Just kidding, of course. The release of CP2077 was anything… Continue Reading
Several weeks ago on the Coffee Break stream, I played Kojima Production’s Death Stranding. Watching back that stream, I’m struck by the amount of on-screen data that the player is tasked with parsing at a glance. The game’s environment shows… Continue Reading
No more broken hearts / We’re better off apart / Let’s give it a try / Tell me, tell me, tell me lies -Fleetwood Mac (“Little Lies”) For the month of April, I’ve been playing through Sam Barlow’s Telling… Continue Reading
[Cross-posted to ludoscholar.net] This week on Coffee Break, I finally played the game that I’ve been talking about for weeks: Yoku’s Island Express. For me, this game excels on a lot of fronts. First, it’s an unlikely mash-up of the… 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