Exploits Feature The Beauty of Backlog By Connor Queen • February 3rd, 2023 Speak to most gamers, and they’ll probably tell you the same thing: Backlogs are annoying.
GRIS: Her Journey By Jeremy Signor • January 16th, 2019 GRIS wants to be Journey, but ultimately learns the wrong lessons and loses its voice.
Gris and the problem of symbolic hurt By Malindy Hetfeld • January 14th, 2019 Gris is a beautiful art game that knows it’s beautiful, but it’s metaphors often lack an emotional punch.
Backlog The Sand and the Sea By Gavin Craig • October 10th, 2016 Giant Squid’s founder, Matt Nava, was art director for 2012’s Journey, and it’s clear that Abzû is an attempt to create a similar sort experiential parable.
Rules of Engagement By Dennis Scimeca • April 8th, 2013 Emotional? Hardly. Dennis Scimeca is skeptical about the Battlefield 4 experience Electronic Arts is promising.
Hinawa Dies By Teddy Diefenbach • March 26th, 2013 Teddy Diefenbach encounters an emotional moment in Mother 3 and sees the power of words in play.
To Swell the Ranks By Nels Anderson • March 25th, 2013 Could the PlayStation 4 change console game development for the better? For Nels Anderson, hope springs eternal.
If You Don’t Buy a PlayStation 4, God Will Kill a Puppy By Dennis Scimeca • February 25th, 2013 The dust has settled a bit on Sony’s PlayStation 4 reveal, but Dennis Scimeca isn’t sure that the game industry needs a new generation of consoles at all.
PRACTICE – Game Design for the Players By Shawn Allen • December 3rd, 2012 Shawn Allen attends the 2nd PRACTICE gaming conference at NYU.
A Digest to Digest To – Thanksgiving 2012 By Team Unwinnable • November 22nd, 2012 Unwinnable wishes you a happy Thanksgiving and offers up a feast for your brain.
Alone Together in Journey By Brendan Keogh • March 27th, 2012 Brendan Keogh discovers solitude with others as he plays Journey for the PS3.
Ride ’em Till They Break By Gus Mastrapa • March 2nd, 2012 Gus Mastrapa finds a connection between HBO’s Luck and our ruthlessness as gamers.
True Rock Band Videogames By Charles Francis Moran VI • July 13th, 2010 There was a time that rock bands would lend their name and likeness to video games that were not necessarily music based experiences. Here are five bands that made games about their rock band, before Rock Band.