Artistry in Games

“I used to play that game for hours with the Konami code as a kid,” Vincent tells me. “It wasn’t until years later that I would eventually complete the game…

Architecture.  When this word is heard in the context of gaming, the usual expectation is to enter a discussion of software systems or data management.  In this series – Form,…

Anyone who loves sport or knows someone who does has heard lines such as, “that touchdown/goal/try was a work of art!” Many sports fanatics consider their favorite athletes to be…

Death. It’s primed and ready to catch all of us someday, but for gamers it comes far more often. I’m, of course, speaking of death in video games themselves. It’s…

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…

When one thinks of methods of teaching, scaring probably does not spring to mind. However, the team behind Nevermind aims to change that fact. By monitoring the player, the game…

The release of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes last week puts me in a rather contemplative frame of mind. The Metal Gear franchise is my favorite in all of…

The art of video games is that there are so many kinds, from first-person shooters to horror-survival games, from point-and-click adventure games to sports games. Because of all these different…

“What is League of Legends,” you ask?  Crawl a little farther out from that rock and I will tell you.  League of Legends, or ‘LoL’ as it is commonly referred…

Oh Metroid! My word do I love Metroid! The Metroid series is actually in a close race with The Legend of Zelda series for my all-time favorite game series. Each…