Posts tagged with Games
Pixelache
I just finished the game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It was originally released back in April, but due to the organic praise from critics and the gaming community alike, the game was sold out for months, and I wasn'…
Review: Ask Iwata
Ask Iwata is a fairly unique biography, as far as biographies go. Satoru Iwata was the beloved Global President of Nintendo Corporation Limited. It's a posthumous memoir, but one written based not on lengthy engagements with professional journalists—…
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…
