Finding Comfort In Fear In the lead up to the launch of Striking Distance’s ‘The Callisto Protocol,’ Studio head and lead developer Glen Schofield alongside his partners released a docuseries exploring various aspects of the psychology of fear. The docuseries featured various “experts” in the field including writers, filmmakers, actors, makeup artists and others from […]
Immersive Storytelling In Older Video Games Over the past few months I have been struggling to play-through newly released games. In the past, this was due to the difficulty level being too high. However, having recently developed the souls-like itch my voracity for challenging video games has increased. Rather than balk at failure, simply keeping […]
…And The Much Hyped Collapse Of The Triple A Gaming Industry Daring to saunter in the internet comment section of any gaming affiliated content and one would be met with the reprise of the demise of Triple A gaming publishers. “Activision has fallen,” “Ubisoft down,” “Triple A is dead,” declare many. As big budget developers […]
Religious Crusades Amidst An Industrial Revolution With the shocking yet not unexpected poor reception of the latest title in the Call Of Duty franchise, avid gamers have taken to the inter-webs to loudly broadcast refunds of their latest purchase. Refunds not because the product is in a sorry technical state at launch, albeit being a […]
The Curious Death of Xbox Over the past few months it has become common place to find piece after piece on the internet lamenting the seeming self-immolation of Microsoft-Xbox. Attempts at rebranding and re-invention seem to have fallen flat with Xbox executives all but giving up the ghost. Don Mattrick was the forerunner, a harbinger […]
An Elite Take On PlayStation’s DualSense Edge Controller As a medium of art, gaming excels in the one place where other forms of media fail or simply can’t succeed: Immersion. Each time we dive into video games, we extend our arms into the void and are often greeted by the gentle caress of vibrations in […]
One could be forgiven for thinking that the Gears of War franchise was nothing more than a motley assortment of big dumb Michael Bay-style type video games. After all, each outing in the series seems to go with the motif of bigger and better. Imbued with a flare for the theatrical the Gears of War […]
One of the very first video games I purchased when I first bought a gaming console was Tomb Raider from 2013. I purchased the sequel alongside it and in the last year I was able to purchase the final game in the trilogy. Technically speaking, the video game is a masterpiece albeit with some technical […]
A few years ago I purchased a second hand Xbox 360 slim unit, Microsoft’s proprietary gaming console. Even though I was several years late to the party and the Xbox One was in the latter half of its life cycle this was my induction into the world of gaming. This served as my first proper […]
While for most people video games are a form of entertainment with repetitive elements of gameplay meant to pass time, they have long since transcended the boundaries of simple gameplay and have become bonafide works of art. A source of cultural commentary much in the same way that films are. The main difference between video […]