Author: Kim Berkley

Silent Hill holds a special place in gamers’ hearts – a dark place, full of encroaching fog, bottomless pits, riddles in blood and the piercing, inhuman cries of tormented souls.…

Talking things out is all well and good, but sometimes you just gotta shoot – or bludgeon, or shred, or impale – something. When the time comes, it’s best to…

Gamers are no strangers to failure. Hauntingly unsolvable puzzles, platform levels requiring the sort of ninja skills only an actual ninja could possess, bosses who literally rip characters to shreds…

Scene: a living room on a dark and stormy night. You’re on your own, a two-year-old searching for your missing mama. You’re sitting in the middle of the room on…

Reading about a pair of girls who tried to murder their friend in order to meet Slenderman, I was struck by two things. One, while it is a tragic story,…

Anyone who’s faced off with at least one giant-sized boss knows what it means to be in awe. It’s that spine-tingling, pulse-racing moment when you find yourself in the presence…

Previously on “A History of Imaginative Gaming“, we followed the eloquent footsteps of text adventure pioneers through colossal cave systems and traveled back in time to the age of 8-bit…

Fun fact, boys and girls: the history of gaming is about 73 years old. This may or may not seem impressive, depending on whether you were born post-YouTube or if…

Photorealistic graphics. Motion tracking. Character expression rendering. Virtual reality. Heck, even The Matrix doesn’t seem so far-fetched these days. In a culture of bigger, better, faster, more, it’s all too…

For a medium so heavily dependent on visuals, it’s odd how easy it can be to overlook the sheer amount of detail work involved in video game creation. The more…