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Exhumed/Powerslave
As previously alluded to in our article on the development of the Sega Saturn hardware, history is written by the victors. It’s because the Saturn ultimately failed–commercially–as a platform that...
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PS4 Architecture: More ‘Open’?
Recent comments that game console software distribution is quickly becoming a media channel that is too archaic for reaching today’s gamers are somewhat misguided. Many high-profile websites like...
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PC-FX Devotional Film
Bizarrely underpowered, but able to do push out better full-motion video than any of its fellow fifth-generation peers, the NEC PC-FX occupies another corner of the obscure game console ring. It was...
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More Unbridled Praise for Lobotomy Software/Ezra Dreisbach
It’s worth re-mentioning the virtues of putting effort into good game design in connection with the Sega Saturn once more before it gets old. In this interview (with, again, Ezra Dreisbach) about the...
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Antichamber/The Witness
Well, Jon Blow’s The Witness is going to be released exclusively on the PS4. That is in terms of its availability in the guise of a console game, however. Those seeking the game on the PC or through an...
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Glover
This is a 3D platforming game from the late-nineties about an anthropomorphic glove, and its ball. They don’t get any more abstract than this. Considering, though, that two of the best and most popular...
View ArticlePS3 Bargain Bin
One of the best things about console gaming is when a console begins to enter its late life-cycle period, especially the period of time following the announcement and launch of the successor console to...
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Chelnov/Atomic Runner
Let’s face it–Contra/Probotector costs a lot of money. For a game with such simple concepts, its popularity has, ironically, rendered it prohibitively difficult to access in order to play. If you, like...
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Virtua Racing
I’ve always wanted to square off Virtua Racing against Starwing. That’s a much bigger job than just reviewing either one of them individually, and since I lack the time to immediately that, and,...
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Cel-Shaded Graphics: Hardware and Art
It should be pretty uncontroversial to say that software and hardware have something to do with one-another. This idea is very strange, however, given just how opposite the individual natures of...
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Platforming
I think that the genre of platforming elucidates a lot of interesting things about the ludological perspective of comprehending games. Ludology (contra narratology) stresses that games should be...
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More NES Homebrew
Head on over to the Retro and Contemporary Game Archives–a blog run by the equally wordily-named ‘Satoshi Matrix’–for a quick run-down of some of the more worthwhile hacks, mods, translations and...
View ArticleXbox Development Culture
Tired of hearing about the relative critical and commercial success of every shooter game that is released these days? How about a bit of catharsis?
View ArticlePleased
Well today I’m pretty pleased. Over at Kotaku, readers have been rewarded with a highly salient discussion about the role of Metacritic and other professional game media review score aggregators within...
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Dustforce Dev ‘Hitbox Team’: New Game
One of the best things about the art of video games is that people can create concrete responses from their reactions to other people’s work relatively quickly and effectively. When combined with the...
View ArticleBioShock and Language
Something I feel compelled to comment on is the powerful role of language in the original BioShock. Formally speaking, much of the game is nothing more than a fetch-quest set within a first-person...
View ArticleIllumiRoom
This just came to my attention. I knew about modding TVs to reflect RGB colour off the wall behind them using LEDs, but this has taken that concept a little further. You can’t help but be reminded of...
View ArticleBorderlands and Battlefield: Bad Company
This post would’ve benefited greatly from consistent alliteration in its title had Bad Company been named something else, but, like the substance of that game, it’s obvious that not everything is...
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Guerrilla Pong
I came across these two webpages only just recently: Josh Nimoy’s MiniPong and Hakon A Hjortland, Havard Moen, and Alf Storm’s unassumingly named 5×7 LED dot matrix pong. The most immediate thing...
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Shovel Knight Team Streamed Let’s Play
One of the really gratifying things about Kickstarter, and the internet, is the increased communication that game developers have with their consumer base. Good evidence for this is Yacht Club Games’...
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