Posts tagged with Games
Video Game Narratives
On the recommendation of many podcasts and some folks I follow on Twitter, I went and finished Firewatch — a new, story-driven game about a guy hanging out in a national park watching for forest fires — in a single sitting.…
Review: Ready Player One
This year is the year of virtual reality. All the headsets launching this year is creating a lot of excitement, but given the price points and the 1.0-nature of these launches, I’m not quite ready to jump…
The Fluid Modal Gameplay in Batman Video Games
I’m slightly late to the latest Batman game, Batman: Arkham Knight. It was originally released in June 2015 on the PS4 and Xbox One, but I wanted to wait on the presumably superior PC version. Sadly, that port ran…
Life as Tetris
I found a fun article a couple of days ago that tries to compare Tetris to life over Chess as the appropriate gaming analog. As a former addict to Tetris DS as well as a founder of my high school’…
Small Screens for Reading, Large Screens for Immersion
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is happening right now in Vegas, and I spent a few minutes today looking at all the latest hardware and gadgetry developments which are supposed to define consumer technology in 2016. There look to be…
The Pixel Block Mobile Arcade Game
Remember Crossy Road? It was a game that came at the right time, that executed well on a simple idea and had a great sense of style to back up solid, time-tested gameplay. Of course, it helped that the…
