1 day agoThe Game Awards Sucks 2023 Edition, or Geoff Keighley in: The Warlock of WimbledonSick of expending energy on this guy, including the possibility of having to come up with article names about his garbage. In lieu of a descriptive title, I have included the subject followed by the name of a random Scooby-Doo episode to hopefully entice browsing readers. Did the titular Warlock…The Game Awards20 min readThe Game Awards20 min read
Nov 25“VR Game of the Year” Reads a Fading Neon Sign Outside of a Dying MallI was initially compelled to write this article because I saw the “VR Game of the Year” nominations for The Game Awards and assumed, for a moment, that someone was playing a prank on me. The Game Awards and its ilk are invariably a pretty insipid, grim spectacle — looking…Virtual Reality29 min readVirtual Reality29 min read
Nov 20Appreciating Alan Wake’s Adverb ApocalypseThis article contains some spoilers for the first Alan Wake, but none for its sequel. If you know the premise of the sequel, or played it, you shouldn’t find much here that would dampen an eventual playthrough of the original game! The writing in the original Alan Wake is really…Alan Wake16 min readAlan Wake16 min read
Jul 11Ten Seconds to MidnightStarting in the year 2031, you will be unable to play the original Animal Crossing on the Nintendo GameCube. …Animal Crossing8 min readAnimal Crossing8 min read
May 8There’s This Moment in Silent Hill 2This article contains spoilers for Silent Hill 1 and 2. My partner and I recently started working on a horror game together, and it’s become this really interesting tool for revisiting my favourite horror media to try and disassemble things down to their component parts. If you want to make…Silent Hill7 min readSilent Hill7 min read
Apr 18Discord’s New “AI” Chatbot Is a Useless, Miserable NightmareBack when I used to be fairly active in various communities for fanfiction, there was this trend you’d see with a lot of long-running stories where the narrative would pass a clear conclusion and then just continue until the writer inevitably lost interest. The story itself would become a kind…Discord8 min readDiscord8 min read
Apr 15Crowbcat, The Kuleshov Effect, and Insincere Games CriticismThis is an article about one particular YouTuber, but I don’t really want it to be; it’s easy to miss the forest for a single tree, just as it’s easy to talk about a single person when you’re really talking about an entire subculture. All of this is much bigger…YouTube8 min readYouTube8 min read
Feb 22Fun is InfiniteWhen I was a kid, I didn’t really think about what video games actually were or where they came from. I knew that Nintendo made Mario games, and I knew that a GameCube was a Nintendo GameCube and that a Wii was a Nintendo Wii, but I’m not really sure…Essay26 min readEssay26 min read
Sep 5, 2022The Darker Elements of DoomThere’s little question that Doom is one of the most recognizable and culturally ubiquitous games of its kind. This comes with a certain identity; a brand, for all intents and purposes. When you ask someone to describe Doom in a word or two, you’ll see some recurring words: brutal, fast…Doom16 min readDoom16 min read
Jun 4, 2022Valve Isn’t a Company Interested in Mods AnymoreValve has a very forward-thinking reputation. This is because Valve is a uniquely weird company. In an industry full of business-driven suits, Valve has always been viewed as something better — something akin to a kid who’s absolutely okay with his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures fighting his He-Man…Valve11 min readValve11 min read
