The Glitch is the Thing

The Glitch is the Thing

November games press (“ “) was ablaze (“ “) with reports and screenshots of the latest Assassin’s Creed game, which kind of yielded some amazing pictures: I can’t get over how macabre and hilarious and terrifying it all is, (and Zach Budgor over at Killscreen outlines...
Skeletendo: Spooky Art Games for October

Skeletendo: Spooky Art Games for October

Happy (mid) October! Even though I’ve never been a huge fan of Halloween (my childhood costumes rotated between lawyer, businessman, and French businessman, all of which were just me wearing a suit that was too big plus or minus my mom’s beret) I’m a sucker for a good...
Lovely Planet and the Violent Video Game

Lovely Planet and the Violent Video Game

One of my earliest memories of playing video games: I’m sitting in my dad’s office playing Wolfenstein 3D and my grandfather walks in. He walks slowly and methodically; he’s elderly, but every time he drives it’s right there on his license plate: a purple heart from...
Less is More: Zelda, Metroid, OlliOlli, and the Rhythm Demake

Less is More: Zelda, Metroid, OlliOlli, and the Rhythm Demake

In his 2012 essay “Saving Zelda,” Tevis Thompson takes the Legend of Zelda series—of which he is a lifelong fan—to task. “Zelda sucks, and it has sucked for a long time,” he writes, not so much as to incite fan rage, but to lay what we all maybe suspect on the table:...
drive, he sd: Glitchhikers

drive, he sd: Glitchhikers

Several years ago a friend of mine was going through the intense heartbreak at the end of a lengthy relationship and I was younger and ill-equipped to offer the right kind of support, so we drove. In my heart I knew it was a terrible idea because gas prices had just...