The Indie Games That (We Hope) Will Still Come Out In 2016 Josh Hinke September 12, 2016 Features It’s almost Holiday season in 2016, isn’t that crazy? You might think of the Holiday season starting at the end of November (for Americans, we usually start around Thanksgiving), but for video games the holida...
Oppression: The Gimmick Sheva Gunnery September 9, 2016 Opinion 3 By now, you've probably heard about “Augs Lives Matter,” the phrase used in a promotional image for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided that the franchise’s executive brand director, Andre Vu, claims only “coincidentally”...
Who Wants This? Josh Hinke September 8, 2016 Opinion 1 It’s the question I don’t think enough platform developers ask themselves. It’s the question that sometimes is ridiculed for leaning too far into the business end of the tech, that makes the Silicon Valley fai...
A Never-ending Cycle of Games about Never-ending Cycles. Josh Rivers September 6, 2016 Opinion Games appear to have cottoned on to a neat little trick: they can extend their replayability by crafting a compelling narrative reason for why the game repeats itself. The mere fact of having a reason for the r...
The Past, Present and Future of Videogame Soundtracks Elodie Cunningham September 2, 2016 Opinion 1 I recently attended the London-based Japanese culture event, Hyper Japan, and as is always the case at the popular semi-annual event, Nintendo UK held a sizeable portion of the show floor to promote a few of th...
A Momentary Pause with Red Column Kevin King September 1, 2016 Podcast Red Column Founder Arturo Chaves joins A Momentary Pause this week to talk his game 3Souls, how immersion plays a key role in his design, utilizing all the features of the Wii U GamePad, making the player a cha...
