Opinion by Matt S. It’s happened again, folks. As utterly exhausting and cyclical as this is, another developer had the audacity to release a game that was the right length for what they wanted to do, and here we are having the conversation about whether short games can be good,…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I’ve touched on this topic often enough in the past, but I saw a tweet this morning from a game developer that annoyed me enough that I felt like it was worth re-iterating on here, because it speaks to a common attitude towards games that are…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Cyberpunk 2077 is just around the corner now, and it’s a game that people are obviously very excited for. But news emerged this week that was a little concerning, insofar as the game’s narrative and theme are concerned: a developer working on the game has spent…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I touched on this in my review of The Alliance Alive HD, but I wanted to expand on it while it’s fresh in my memory. I know that I’ve talked about how games should be shorter in opinion pieces in the past, but here I wanted…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. As many will know, EA announced that it was shutting down Visceral Games today, leaving the careers of the staff, and the future of the games that it was working on, in complete limbo. There is a lot wrong with this decision, and how EA justified…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt C. Welcome to 2016, a year with more amazing game releases than anybody could possibly play, and a year in which people are losing their minds because a highly-anticipated game might be “only” 30 hours long. Someone who allegedly obtained a copy pre-release shared some details about…
Read MoreThere’s been a whole new controversy around The Order: 1886 to wade through. Before the game has even been released some YouTuber uploaded the entire game playthrough (let’s put how completely unethical that is to a side for a moment), and because that playthrough takes around five hours, people have…
Read MoreI’ve recently finished the main plot of Attack of the Friday Monsters on the Nintendo 3DS. That wasn’t much of a feat actually as the game only took two hours and thirty minutes. And yet after finishing it I couldn’t help but think that I would love for more games…
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