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Shovel Knight

January 10, 2015 by Alexander Young

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…]

Posted in: Reviews Tagged: indie, pc, platformer, shovel knight

Hearthstone

December 13, 2014 by Alexander Young

People pay a lot of attention to presentation: across whatever endeavours people wish to compete in in the marketplace, it will most often be in the realms of presentation that products differ. Do you want your breakfast cereal of treated corn to make you feel less ugly than you usually do, or do you want … [Read more…]

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Megarace

May 28, 2014 by Alexander Young

When it is 2000, the first computer you have in your house is a 133MHz Pentium with 16MB of RAM with no network connectivity and you enjoy videogames as a hobby, you don’t have a lot to choose from in terms of what your hardware is capable of allowing you to play. With an internet … [Read more…]

Posted in: Reviews Tagged: dos, megarace, pc

SteamOS: Why It Matters

September 28, 2013 by Alexander Young

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…]

Posted in: Musings Tagged: cross platform, directx, linux, opengl, pc, sdl, steamos

Dark Souls: A Retrospective

September 8, 2013 by Alexander Young

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…]

Posted in: Reviews Tagged: bass cannon, dark souls, giantdad, pc
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