I promise this will be the last time I write about Tomb Raider. Okay, probably not, but it’s a Good Game, and Good Games tend to bring up a lot of interesting questions. Journey, for instance, is a Good Game, and it asks you what does unconditional love mean to you. Shadow of the Colossus [...]
Some games don’t make a lot of sense in a bad way. Some games break internal logic and have unintuitive controls and gameplay that doesn’t match up with what you’re seeing and hearing onscreen. That is how bad games don’t make sense; they defy your expectations to work. Frog Fractions, a free Flash game from [...]
Next month EA will be giving PC gamers a chance at seeing what this game really has to offer by opening up the beta for all PC gamers, the hype for the most part has been here and there but now its really time to see whats under the covers so to speak. I will [...]
We’ve all had love affairs of which we weren’t particularly proud: the girl with the squinty eye or the boy who smelled a bit funny. And the fact that we didn’t necessarily want to admit to our guilty pleasures doesn’t mean that we didn’t have an awful lot of fun while they lasted. So it [...]
Grindhouse cinema, preceded by the works of Ed Wood and his peers, gave birth to the modern B-movie. We need more of this trend in games. Why, you ask, do we need bad games? Because there’s merit to work that realizes it’s limitations and weaknesses, and exploits them for the audiences’ entertainment. Art that doesn’t [...]
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