I used to think meditation was a religious thing. You cross your legs, sit on a mat and hum in front of a statue of your...
Not so Final Fantasy is a tri-weekly column dedicated to all things Final Fantasy; from specific aspects of specific titles, to the universal features that set...
It was a very jolly Christmas eve when I opened my copy of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. As Cristina – my fiancèe – well knew,...
Robin Hunicke, Marc LeBlanc, and Robert Zubek describe aesthetic within video games as the desired emotional response a player has to a game’s systems (MDA: A...
The Experiment I’ve been playing video games since I was five years old, and writing about them since I was 19. I’ve gone from playing Spongebob...
To: Before the Storm and Deck Nine A game is designed to be played a certain way. I recently wrote in a piece about Hellblade’s sound...
It was perhaps a dream that Nintendo managed to downplay in their latest Direct presentation. Waluigi, regularly the heart-throb of the Mario Tennis series, had already...
With Kirby Star Allies launching March 16, Nintendo’s rosiest statesman will soon be starring in his first traditional console platformer in nearly a decade. But that’s...
Of all the games featured at E3 2017, A Way Out probably piqued my interest more than any other title. I appreciate that’s quite a bold statement...
This is the series' first attempt at making the transition to an open world format and such a massive undertaking was bound to present a hurdle...
