Category: Video Games

Running from your relationships: Catherine review

This review can also be found at The Yorker, here. Video games aren’t too great at dealing with relationships; especially sexual ones. Often, when sex comes up in a game, it’s as a ‘reward’; and if the game is particularly immature, as …

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Location: Always the Urbanite

This article is a Destructoid Bloggers Request, found here. I love living in the city – while many resent the crowded streets, the tall buildings and the subtle background notes of consumerism and pollution, it’s what I grew up around, and I …

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Dating Sims: Romance for those who don’t know better

This article is hosted on The Yorker, found here. Dating Simulators. It’s a genre that’s been around longer than you might think, surprisingly constrained to obscure Japanese titles, and even then, ones essentially indie developed and distributed for DOS. For the uninitiated, …

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Mario Kart 7 – Glidin’ & Divin’

This review can also be found at The Yorker. Nintendo are pretty smart businessmen. They’re very confident in their intellectual property – on any given Nintendo console, you’d be had pressed to not find a Mario, Zelda, or Pokémon title. And yet, …

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Have You Played – Resonance of Fate

This article can also be found at the Yorker. Japanese RPGs fall into some rather typical camps. There are the menu-heavy games like Pokémon and Final Fantasy VII, slow affairs where reaction speed isn’t a focus; and action RPGs like Kingdom Hearts …

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Character Design: Weighing in on Women Protagonists

This article can be found at PixelxCore. Like all media telling a story, characters in video games require detail and definition – especially player characters. It’s not just the gameplay mechanics that make up your digital avatar; exploration into interesting costume design, …

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A Glimpse into Navigator

“So, what is all this Navigator business?”Navigator is PxC’s 1st publically released project, a puzzle game starring the titular Nav, a pioneer in virtual reality. He works alongside Professor Claire Nova, building the first-ever virtual reality survival puzzle game. “Survival Puzzle game?”That’s …

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An Inside Look at Operation Moonfall

In a time where video game companies and the fans of their products can interact through social media – fans are lucky enough to have gotten an increasingly powerful voice in regards to the things they want from their games; and in …

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Duke Nukem, and Girls in Gaming

 This article can also be found at The Yorker.   Duke Nukem Forever is a problematic game. Not just in how after 12 years of haphazard development it feels unfinished, or how the game has been critically slammed by both critics and …

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Super Guides and You

This article can also be found at The Yorker. Nintendo’s re-release of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the 3DS is almost upon us. In order to make it worth the buck of those who might have played it before, they’ve …

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