Posts tagged with Games
Games are Getting Cheap Faster
Console and PC video game releases and launch dates roughly follow annual retail sales patterns: they start the year at a brisk pace, slow down in the summer months, and then surge for the fall and winter holiday seasons. Of…
Evolving Game Storytelling
I just finished the excellent semi-rebooted God of War on the PlayStation 4. The series started out on the PlayStation 2, and tells a classic Greek tragedy where the protagonist, Kratos, is tricked by the (former) Greek god of…
Evolving Real-Time Strategy Gaming with DotA Underlords
Mods are unique to PC gaming. Unlike their mobile and console counterparts, the open nature of the PC allows for amateur game designers and programmers to take an existing game engine—sometimes along with the art assets—and build something…
The Employee-Founder Disconnect
Another month, another job posting ripe for internet ridicule. In this case, it's a job listing from the creator of Stardew Valley, looking for an administrative assistant to help him with a number of tasks while he continues…
Centuplicate Tetris
M.A.G. was a one-of-a-kind shooter on the PlayStation 3. Where other games were content with 16- or 32-player skirmishes, M.A.G. figured that 256[1] players in the same game would be a…
Review: NieR: Automata: Long Story Short
NieR: Automata was a critically acclaimed action game with heavy RPG and story elements first released in 2017. Its success was quite surprising: it’s a sequel to a series of good-but-not-widely-loved games in NieR and…
