Opinion by Matt S. Last week, the White House, run by that insufferable moron that the American people have somehow still tolerated in power, embarked on a full offensive towards game developers and the games industry. They pulled together a video of the most extreme violence in games and all…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Hollywood has issues. The last year has made that much more clear than ever before. Weinstein and the actions of other men have highlighted serious cultural issues that stretch across the industry, its money, the media, and the community itself. The 90th Oscars show was all…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. One year ago today Yoko Taro’s NieR: Automata was unleashed on the world. I was a huge fan of the original, because despite its rough edges, the story it told was so deep, and so compelling, that nothing else really mattered to me. Moreso than even…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Discovery Tour by Assassin’s Creed: Ancient Egypt has been pitched as an educational resource. In the very headline of the press release it makes it clear that Ubisoft want this to be seen as something from which people will learn: “The discovery tour by Assassin’s Creed…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. People who play games generally care a great deal about the technical foundations of those games. Frame rates, benchmarks, loading times, resolution, ping rates, and so on. And, when these things don’t go perfectly, people who play games tend to get very cranky about it. But…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Esports doesn’t need the Olympics. It shouldn’t be an Olympic sport. There is an increasingly vocal perception out there that esports will enter the Olympics. But that would benefit no one, and be a wasted opportunity for others. Make no mistake, the explosion in esports has…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. One of the buzzwords that’s cropped up on the industry side of game development in recent years is the idea of ‘games as a service’ or ‘games as a platform’. Often when people talk about it they mean it in terms of a game that’s got…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Rack off, Senator Fifield. For those of you who aren’t plagued by the incompetent, useless government currently indulging its power fantasies in Australia, we have a hyper-conservative party in power that, in the same week announced plans to become a global leader in arms manufacture and…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The Nintendo Labo lets you stick your Switch into little boxes of cardboard that you make yourself, and then play games or interactive toys with the result. You could make yourself a little keyboard and play some music. Or a robot that you can then drive…
Read MoreArticle by Harvard L. Little Red Lie adds a lot of things to the narrative game genre, but throughout I was fascinated by all the tricks used by developer Will O’Neill to subvert audience expectations and drive home the game’s core themes. This is a game with a razor-sharp critique,…
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