Well, I’m about knee-deep in Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch and eyeball-deep in Fire Emblem: Awakening despite wanting to go back into DmC Devil May Cry‘s harder difficulties, finish Darksiders II, give XCOM: Enemy Unknown‘s Classic Ironman mode a whirl, and write more things. Basically I’m an idiot with my time. I [...]
Yes, I know what a roguelike is, so allow me to absolve myself of future pains right now: not everything I’ll be talking about here are definitive roguelikes. Much like the Wu Tang Clan, roguelikers ain’t nothing to fuck with. However, it’s undeniable that this year has seen a rise in certain elements of roguelikes [...]
You hear the phrase “power fantasy” being thrown around a lot nowadays, and it’s very apt when it comes to video games. After all, everyone daydreams about being a superhero: that guy with the ability to do something no one else can do. You want to be able to fly by defying physics or fight [...]
The IndieCade section is effectively E3 in microcosm but with, you know, less. In its entirety, IndieCade takes up about a sixth of the Microsoft booth and shares its space with the Into The Pixel exhibit, Nvidia’s live musical performers, and the best hidden secret of E3: totally clean and unravaged bathrooms. But that’s besides [...]
Minecraft is one of the biggest indie games in years, if not of all time. Trials HD is one of the stalwart strongest titles on the Xbox Live Arcade. Fables has become one of Microsoft’s staple franchise for their Xbox brand. Bloodforge is… well, it’s something new. Major Nelson has announced that four new titles [...]
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