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(Belated) Notes on Final Fantasy VII Remake

By |2023-06-25T19:00:12+00:00June 25th, 2023|Categories: Close Looks, Video Games|

Let’s get this out of the way: Final Fantasy VII Remake is the most artless title of any video game I have ever played. Even if they didn’t want to give it a proper subtitle, it should have been Final Fantasy VII Remade. Remake’s the sort of slapdash descriptor you apply before there’s an actual title, […]

Notes on Every Game I Played in 2021

By |2023-04-21T00:01:11+00:00June 10th, 2022|Categories: Video Games|Tags: |

This is my tenth (!) annual shot at doing a short write-up of every game I’ve played in a year. As noted last time, 2020-2021 were crazy difficult years for me, and  I got pretty backlogged on writing these up, so this was all written between January and May of 2022. To wit: sometimes I […]

Notes on Every Game I Played in 2020

By |2021-11-05T15:52:51+00:00November 5th, 2021|Categories: Video Games|

This is my ninth annual roundup of games I’ve played in a given year, and I’m publishing it ten months late; the last two years have been incredibly difficult for me, and projects like this one have gone slowly. But it’s here, and while the 2021 roundup will also be late, it should appear in early […]

Game Club: Spiritfarer, Letter 4

By |2021-06-25T16:23:13+00:00June 25th, 2021|Categories: Game Club Letters, Video Games|Tags: , , |

Welcome to Game Club, where Joanna Price and myself exchange letters about a game we’ve jointly played. This time, we’re discussing Spiritfarer, a “cozy management game about death”. This is the fourth and final letter. To catch up, read Joanna’s first letter, my second letter, and Joanna’s third letter.

Hey […]

Games Club: Spiritfarer, Letter 2

By |2021-06-25T16:20:16+00:00June 25th, 2021|Categories: Game Club Letters, Video Games|Tags: , |

Welcome to Game Club, where Joanna Price and myself exchange letters about a game we’ve jointly played. This time, we’re discussing Spiritfarer, a “cozy management game about death”. This is a response to Joanna’s first letter.

Hello Joanna,

I’m actually surprised by how in sync we are. While I think I enjoyed

Game Club: Spycraft: The Great Game, Letter 3

By |2021-01-22T22:29:45+00:00October 1st, 2020|Categories: Game Club Letters, Video Games|Tags: , , |

Welcome to Game Club, where Joanna Price and myself exchange letters about a game we’ve jointly played. This time, we’re discussing Spycraft: The Great Game, an unusual 1996 adventure game from Activision. To catch up, check out Letter 1 and Letter 2, and see Joanna’s final response with Letter 4.

Hi Joanna,

Sorry […]

Game Club: Spycraft: The Great Game, Letter 1

By |2021-01-22T22:27:55+00:00September 7th, 2020|Categories: Game Club Letters, Video Games|Tags: , , |

Welcome to Game Club, where Joanna Price and myself exchange letters about a game we’ve jointly played. This time, we’re discussing Spycraft: The Great Game, an unusual 1996 adventure game from Activision. Also check out Letter 2, Letter 3, and Letter 4.

Dear Joanna,

I am delighted to resume our game club letters, […]

Notes on every game I played in 2019

By |2021-10-20T17:19:54+00:00May 25th, 2020|Categories: Video Games|Tags: , , |

For the eighth year in a row, I’m publishing a roundup of every game I played in the past year. As you can see, I completely failed to accomplish last year’s promise of doing this quarterly, hence the massive block of text below. Hopefully I can break it up more in 2020, but given that […]

Free and Cheap Video Games to Play During the Pandemic

By |2020-04-03T00:46:31+00:00March 21st, 2020|Categories: Lists, Video Games|Tags: , |

With a lot of people trapped at home due to the ongoing pandemic, there’s a great need for cheap entertainment. Many generous game developers are responding to this with free or pay-what-you-want sales of their games. In addition, there’s a huge amount of always-free games you can play during this time.

I’ll be updating this post as […]

Nostalgia (Episode 9)

By |2019-12-20T23:47:34+00:00December 20th, 2019|Categories: Podcast|Tags: |

In this episode, Joanna & Dylan spectacularly fail at recording a tight, 30-minute podcast, and instead spend 80 minutes delving into the nature of nostalgia, focusing on nostalgic media like My Neighbor Totoro, Stardew Valley, and Millennium Blades.

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