Much as a multitude of snarky remarks can potentially be made about the “gaming press” being incredibly astute in regard to lacking awareness of anything external to themselves, the coverage of SteamOS this week has been deserving of all of that scorn and so much more. To take a high-profile example, Polygon’s musings into what … [Read more…]
Games are ruined. Playing, finishing and replaying Dark Souls has given me nothing more than a pervading sense of ennui around the majority of action games, with action RPGs being particularly affected by the fallout of recovery from throwing myself so completely into the world and mechanics of this wonderful gift of a game from … [Read more…]
Hate Plus is an incredibly well-designed, engrossing, pretty visual novel: this is not all surprising given the high bar set by Christine Love’s previous work. For Hate Plus, however, the standard video game review fluff around mechanics is completely and utterly superfluous: as with the previous games, one could strip away all of the wonderful … [Read more…]