Years of this bull$*!%
Discussion, reviews, and articles about video games and video game inspired media.
Loot boxes, as a general rule, are not gambling as currently legally defined… but the longer the self-regulating forces hide behind the cash out distinction as the reason to ignore these developments, the more they risk being accused of secretly advocating and tolerating business practices that are already being labelled as predatory.…
After the shocking and disastrous election of the corrupt, racist, fascist, and seditious 45th president of the United States of America, I noticed all his crappy anti-immigration rhetoric about the wall really echoed an equally crappy future recently depicted in the era’s most crappy entry in the Call of Duty series.…
In mid-2012, Precursor Games, a new company of alum from Silicon Knights, formed to crowd-fund the spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. In mid 2013, immediately upon launch, they became the first crowdfunding effort roundly shouted down by various influential voices in the games press.…
On the press response and reception to Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Long overdue, part Three of this three-part (plus) series covering Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem and its attempted spiritual successor now is a posthumous survey of the failure of the Kickstarter for Shadow of the Eternals, split into multiple chapters.…
We are all familiar with the point in time in which polygons and 3D modeling and movement helped move console game experiences from two dimensional movement, gameplay, and strategy to three dimensional gameplay. I propose a console that tackles and grapples with movement, gameplay, and strategy along the dimension of time.…
