Month: January 2015

Steamworld Dig

The prospect of exploration is a powerful thing: making known previously unknowns brings with it both the excitement of the idea of having been somewhere few others have and the trepidation of thoughts of why others haven’t been where you’re going. Though the latter may often be the product of an overactive imagination in the … [Read more…]

Shovel Knight

I don’t have the nostalgia that a lot of people have for NES or SNES-era platformers: I was a late starter when it came to video games in my own home, with my first console being a PlayStation and my first game being Actua Soccer. Owing to this apparently “unfortunate” conflagration of events, I find … [Read more…]