Near the road, listening to campfire blues. Someone’s guitar gently weeps as fellow wanderers shut their eyes. Irradiated monsters await nearby yet nothing matters now but this safe space of camaraderie.…
My first outings with videogames were memorable but far from profound. Most Argentine children of my generation grew up with the Family Game, a cheap Nintendo emulator made in China.…
Ocarina of Time has such a soothing opening. Link is woken from his slumber by a hyperactive fairy named Navi who claims he’s been summoned by the Great Deku Tree.…
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published March 28, 2017. As a teenager, I felt I would never age. Yet I also knew I would, and more than that, I…
It may not be perfect, but Deus Ex is still a blueprint for gaming freedom.
Now entering its third season, Better Call Saul stands heroically on its own, defiantly unlike its parent show, Breaking Bad. Of the two, it has become the sadder, slower, more deliberate…
Ever since it was released as a mod for Half-Life 2, The Stanley Parable has been a cult phenomenon. It was never a particularly long game: play-throughs usually lasted between…
The graphics are so awful and the draw distance so shallow, that the perpetually foggy landscape becomes an enemy itself, endangering the player with unseen chasms and veiled ravines. The…
New consoles always come packaged in boxes and dreams, promises of games to come. I can remember my first days with every console. As an adult, I’ve favored computers, so…
Suburban dramas and comedies are almost always about performance. There is usually a tension between the conventional middle class persona the characters have adopted and whatever it is they’re hiding,…