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...
With over 90 million sales reported across all versions of the game since its original release on September 17, 2013, Grand Theft Auto V is unarguably...
When Star Wars: Battlefront was rebooted in 2015, fans of the franchise were delighted. It was the first Star Wars game in years, and it was...
Context is important in virtually all aspects of life. We can’t understand why we should sympathize with a character in a film, without understanding the context...
