Posts tagged with Games
Financialization Endgame
2024 was a pretty rough year for the video game industry. Even though there were some great games released last year, workers continued to get laid off at a higher rate compared to 2023, and studios were unceremoniously shut down—…
Review: Minesweeper
Before the advent of smartphones, or widespread internet connectivity, the primary role of a PC was for personal and professional productivity. In the Windows 3.1/95 era, my memories of the main "apps"[1] installed on our…
Controlled Set Pieces
I've been making my way through Marvel's Spider-Man 2. This game was released in 2023 for the PS5, a headliner title that served as a showcase for both the console's graphics and its…
Gaming to Engage
Remember when gamification was the technique du jour a decade ago? The software industry pounced on the idea that game mechanics—known to trigger the dopamine releases that keep users coming back for more—could be applied to anything to…
Jigsaw Puzzle Solving
Jigsaw puzzles are an invention of a bygone era. As an entertainment product, it's antithetical to modern trends. It's a slow activity, where the finished product is readily available on the box , with no room for…
Emergent Tetris
Here's a fun, 2-hour documentary on the 35+ year history of the NES version of Tetris and the community still surrounding it to this day: Tetris is hardly a complicated game, and an early version like this…
