Author’s Note: This is the third letter in a four-letter series discussing 1979 Revolution: Black Friday. You can find Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Four here. All posts contains spoilers.
Hey Joanna,
The question of what agency means in games is as important as it is tired. I’m not sure 1979 […]
Author’s Note: This is the first letter in a four-letter series discussing 1979 Revolution: Black Friday. You can find Part Two here, Part Three here, and Part Four here. All posts contains spoilers.
Dear Joanna,
We’ve got a lot to talk about this month. For the sake of not burying the lead, I’ll say […]
Author’s Note: This is the fourth letter in a four-letter series discussing Richard & Alice. You can find Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here. Spoilers within!
Hey Joanna,
I want to start by responding to what you said about ugliness, specifically “I used to think the ugliness of games mattered, […]
Author’s Note: This is the second letter in a four-letter series discussing Richard & Alice. You can find Part One here, Part Three here, and Part Four here. All posts contains spoilers for the entire game.
Hey Joanna,
Thanks for starting the letters off! I’m excited to see where this game club will take […]
Once again, here’s a sentence about every game I played in the year 2015 (not counting games finished up from last year, described in last year’s list). As always, an asterisk after the title means I completed the game.
80 Days*
Eloquently capturing the trials and tribulations of travel in a pre-globalized world, 80 Days‘ classy literary […]
Four days ago, Kotaku’s Jason Schreier published a story titled “Unsung Story Is A $660,000 Kickstarter Disaster.” It’s a peculiar thing; the body mostly consists of Schreier venting his displeasure with said Kickstarter in a very feelings-based, op-ed style, despite the story being filed in the same place as Kotaku’s more regular journalism. What evidence he […]
Continuing a tradition from the last two years, I’m devoting a sentence to every game I began playing in 2014. Consider this a small apology for not writing substantive entries on any of them save Mass Effect 3. More in 2015 (I promise).
Also, if you haven’t already, please consider buying my book (and seven […]
This is the fourth and final part of Critical Mass Effect, a close look at the Mass Effect series. Previous entries are:
This final entry looks at Mass Effect 3, […]
I made two New Years Resolutions for 2014:
1. Update this blog at least once a month.
2. Do not purchase any video games for the first half of the year (excluding games where at least 30% of proceeds goes to charity, e.g. Humble Bundles).
The first is the sort of resolution every lazy writer makes. The second is […]
Last year, I wrote a one-sentence description of every game I played in 2012. I’m making this an annual tradition, so let the run-on sentences commence! Because throwing glowing adjectives in a sentence gets tiresome quickly, this is not intended to be fair in any way shape or form; some of these are serious commentary, some […]
