Steam Next Fest is drawing to a close and I’ve had the opportunity to try out a number of interesting indie games thanks to the over 3,000 demos. Many of them are interesting, and there are so many…
October 22, 2024 | 10:00 EDT
There’s a lot of reasons to love Neon White. It’s a game confident in its ambitions, singularly focused on delivering small slices of exhilarating, speedrun-centric action gameplay. In a year that’s…
July 1, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
June and July are notoriously known for being the "dry season" in the games industry, a period of time where the big publishers take a step back to announce what they have lined up for the rest of…
June 2, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Firewatch came out over five years ago and I’m still thinking about it. My initial playthrough was one spring on PlayStation 4, and then I revisited this game a couple summers ago on Nintendo Switch…
May 6, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
I spent a solid 24 hours in my review of Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator. This game developed by Studio Namaapa and published by PQube is an interesting mix of visual novel, life simulator…
February 21, 2020 | 11:30 EST
I never like to call a genre dead or dying. The industry usually has its ebbs and flows, and genres fade in and out of popularity over time. They never go away, but it may take some time for them to…
January 2, 2018 | 09:00 EST
In the middle of October I had the pleasure of attending Playcrafting's Fall Expo. Dozens of video and board game developers were getting together in Microsoft's Times Square location in order to…
November 2, 2015 | 01:00 EST
PAX Prime 2015 was a sprawling behemoth. Centering on the Washington State Convention Center and spilling over into numerous surrounding hotels and venues, PAX Prime is ever growing, from the main…
September 5, 2015 | 12:00 EDT
When something, having built up progress, having become unwieldy and ultimately unstable, ends up shattering under its own weight. That's a cataclysm, and the term applies both to the events of the…
November 28, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Awesome music makes for awesome games. It's an aspect of video game critique as a whole I feel doesn't get enough attention. How a video game sounds and how that sound is integrated into the…
November 4, 2014 | 09:00 EST