When you think of TikTok, you’d be forgiven if your first thoughts go to dancing kids trying to get famous. However, there is more to the...
Now that Portal 2 is ten years old, it's worth going back and appreciating how effectively it followed up on a surprise hit.
2020 has been a pretty awful year for all of us but it has been nothing if not full of surprises. Some of these surprises haven’t...
Valve is finally giving gamers a Half-Life sequel in Half-Life Alyx and it's only being marketed to a microcosm of the population.
Content curation is a really tricky art, one that no platform has seemed to get correct yet. Youtube is floundering with notification systems that don’t work...
This episode is dedicated to the hype train, that locomotive comprised of all of our unrealized hopes, dreams, and unrealistic expectations. But what fuels the hype...
Nintendo has always had this air of mythology around it. Like Walt Disney or Hayao Miyazaki, Shigeru Miyamoto enjoys a healthy amount of reverence amongst his...
"ChromaGun" review for the Nintendo Switch.
Today we finally lay to rest one of the longest running jokes/rumours in gaming. Today, for the first time in well over a decade, thanks to...
In a recent article, I questioned whether Steam needs quality control. Unsurprisingly, it was a resounding yes with a few ideas on how to change the...
Talking Point is a weekly series that posits a question concerning the gaming industry. We encourage readers, as well as our writers, to offer their thoughts...
It’s that time of the year again where many people watch horror movies and play horror video games to get into the Halloween spirit. But some...
The Game Boys’ month long celebration of Halloween continues! In this week’s Game Boys episode, Tim and Ryan resurrect Valve’s Left 4 Dead. Also, the Game Boys...
The Half-Life fanbase is likely the saddest fan-base in all of gaming, and in more ways than one. Few other fan groups have put up with as...
As a hobby, gaming can create some interesting and disquieting juxtapositions for our existence. On the one hand, it’s an activity which stimulates the brain, expands...
There are few things that better define PC gaming then mods. Nearly as long as people have been playing games on personal computers, people have been...
Half-Life 2 is often seen as one of the greatest games ever released, even by Valve standards. The perfect mix of old-school sci-fi, shooting, and (at...
The Portal series is home to Valve’s most deliberately uneven and deliriously uncomfortable of narratives. The seemingly innocent fun of cutting holes between dimensions and using them to...
By the end of the 1990s the video game industry had overcome commercial and critical adversity and established itself as a dominant form of entertainment for...