You can watch this essay above or just read it below! These observations are based on our Lunch Zone stream of Prison Architect from a few weeks ago! Find that here (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/890243261) Do you ever put down a game for… Continue Reading
You may watch this video here: The first game I fell in love with was Super Mario 64. I can remember first seeing my cousins play it at my grandma’s house when I was six years ol d on an… 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
As the Blog Director for Serious Play, I realized that I actually didn’t know that much about our blog site. I had no experience working with web design, I wasn’t sure how to write a “good’ blog, and WordPress just…… Continue Reading
You can also watch this instead of read it here: You wake up in a abandoned space facility, it’s familiar, but something’s not quite right. The colors are off, darker than you expect. You see a window into the vastness… Continue Reading
The Satisfaction of Tetris Tetris, perhaps more than another other game, is described as “perfect” by video game critics. One such voice is MatthewMatosis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnztj1UlkQs), who argues Tetris is a perfect game because it is both simple and irreducible. It… Continue Reading
You can watch this essay in video form here: Is Cyberpunk 2077 Just Another Open World Game? While I’m not one who puts much stock in reviews, I found Gamespot’s assessment of Cyberpunk 2077 pretty interesting. While reading their article,… 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
As a board game enthusiast, I often find myself grappling with issues of storage. Indeed, materiality itself invariably involves questions of just where to put all this stuff we accumulate. However, board games present their own unique challenge, as one… Continue Reading
You can also find this in video form here: A Pokemon Walking Simulator? The box art for Pokemon Snap is pretty brilliant, it showcases a bunch of pokemon, has a camera lens in the middle of the frame, and the… Continue Reading