Artistry in Games

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…

“I don’t need to get a life. I’m a gamer. I have lots of lives.” You’ve probably seen this line circulate the internet a lot. It makes for an easy-to-market…

Nosgoth was not the game a lot of people were expecting when Square Enix revealed the next entry in the Legacy of Kain series. Fans were dubious of a new…

Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim darkness of…

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…

What image comes to mind when you think of multiplayer? Rocket launcher battles in Halo? Akimbo shotguns and Team Deathmatch in Call of Duty? Creeps and champions in League of…

The Women that Gaming got Right is an ongoing series looking at the best female characters that gaming has to offer. 99% of the time video games represent women pretty…

Pre-orders have become ubiquitous with AAA game releases, and even some indie titles. We see them everywhere now, and it’s starting to get out of control. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning,…

Animation Adaptation–Hugely popular animated series Avatar: The Legend of Korra is set for a video game adaptation by none other than developers of Bayonetta and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Platinum…

Crowdfunded Gaming–Brooklyn-based developers Studio Mono have launched a Kickstarter for their ‘dieselpunk’ RPG InSomnia. The title is set to offer players a vision of a man-made apocalypse, with promises of…