Posts tagged with Games
Year of the Linux Gaming Console
When Valve announced and then released their Steam Deck in 2022, it was a bit of a surprise; everyone outside of Nintendo has tried and mostly failed to make something of portable gaming[1]. Its design was bulky and heavy…
The Return of Epic Single-Player Gaming
Video games have been traditionally divided between single-player and multiplayer games. The first game—Tennis for Two, essentially a precursor to Pong—was indeed a 2-player affair. But some of the most famous games of the formative years of gaming—…
The Reinventions of Final Fantasy
My in-game counter says it took me about 47 hours to finish my first play-through of Final Fantasy XVI. It's been 6 years since the last mainline Final Fantasy[1], and compared to the breakneck pace of releases…
Cloud Gaming as a Feature
So last week, pretty much to no one's surprise, Google announced that they'll be shutting down their gaming streaming service Stadia by January next year. Even at launch, aside from the rocky launch of the service…
Myth-making in Video Games
I've been putting in a good chunk of hours into my PS5 recently making my way through one of the best games of the year, Horizon: Forbidden West. It's a worthy successor to 2017's…
Where the Numbers Keep Getting Bigger
I’ve been messing around with the recently released Diablo Immortal. It’s the latest game in the Diablo series, which popularized this Action RPG + loot genre of games that has largely displaced MMORPGs, by replacing monthly subscription fees with…
