Editorials Archive
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Designing a Better Narrative: Comedy
Posted on 12/22/2012Comedy has existed for as long civilization has, whether it’s reminiscing about how poor Timmy tried to tip a cow but instead was tipped himself or why exactly a man... -
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The Bearable Lightness of Journey
Posted on 12/10/2012I realized that I was an atheist sometime in my senior year of high school. I wasn’t raised in a religious household, though my mother was raised Catholic. I used... -
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Multiplayer for the 99%
Posted on 11/26/2012If online multiplayer gaming was a socioeconomic system, it’d wind up being similar to the United States’ version of capitalism. 99% of the success in games are had by 1%... -
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5 Things Microsoft and Sony Can Learn From the WiiU Launch
Posted on 11/19/2012Time will of course tell whether or not the WiiU launch has been successful. It’s barely been 24 hours, and there isn’t anything close to actual data in terms of... -
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Designing A Better Narrative: The True Events
Posted on 11/13/2012During my last article I managed to confuse my editor in epic fashion when I came up with the term “True Events“, Marc thought of them as something closely similar... -
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Designing A Better Narrative: Beginnings
Posted on 10/29/2012Each year we see games like Warlords that treat its story as just something on a list. There’s no real forethought, no serious decision if the game needs a story.... -
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The Co-Dependent and Mutually Destructive Relationship Between the Gaming Press, Publishers, and the Internet
Posted on 10/29/2012Here we are again. 2012 has been a critical year to the growth of the gaming press. What used to be just another arm of the gaming industry has pushed... -
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How Resident Evil Got Me to Do Something I’d Never Done Before (Or Since)
Posted on 10/19/2012(Note: there are two instances of foul language in this post.) My mother and I have a unique relationship. She raised me by herself (I have never met my father),... -
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Things I Was Secretly Expecting From Borderlands 2
Posted on 10/16/2012(WARNING: this article goes into spoilers territory on Borderlands 2. Avoid this if you’re still playing or easily offended) Borderlands was one of my favorite games when I first started... -
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NBA 2K13′s VC A Dangerous Precedent for Gaming
Posted on 10/08/2012NBA 2K13 released a few days ago to great fanfare, and while the on-court experience was top notch, there were some aspects off the court that troubled me and ultimately... -
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The Birth of The Rat King
Posted on 10/02/2012(ed: We considered running this piece as is but decided to have this little disclaimer for clarity’s sake. The following is an allegory in the style of Animal Farm or... -
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NBA Live ’13 Cancellation the Product of Hubris and Bad Planning
Posted on 09/27/2012So, here we are. After rumor after rumor was shot down by EA Sports concerning the possibility that NBA Live ’13 would not make a full retail release this year,... -
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Too Many Things on the Menu: How the MMO is Ruining Gaming
Posted on 09/27/2012There’s a common school of thought when it comes to restaurants: if there are a lot of things on the menu, chances are none of them are good. It’s the... -
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Tensei, Persona, And The Art Of Trying Something New
Posted on 09/14/2012This week, with a lot of fear in my heart, I started playing Persona Arena. I feared that my favorite series could have been ruined, I feared that the Persona... -
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Anita Sarkeesian’s Joan of Arc Moment
Posted on 09/10/2012First, a history lesson. Joan of Arc was a French military commander who helped France win the Hundred Years War, thereby allowing Charles VII to become the King of France.... -
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Hate Gaming Journalism? Here’s How You Can Fix It
Posted on 09/02/2012I saw a link come across my Twitter feed on Sunday (thanks, Ian!) that led me to a thread on popular gaming forum NeoGAF that contained complaints from users who... -
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Kotaku, Anonymous, and the Problem with Modern Gaming Journalism
Posted on 08/16/2012What if you thought you (and the perpetrator, of course) were the only person in the world who knew that a crime had been committed? If you were a journalist and said... -
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What Makes a Difficult Game Fun?
Posted on 08/13/2012Modern gaming has found itself in a funny place. Due in part to the bloated budgets that many games have, developers seem to want people to see all of their... -
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Slender and the New Horror Revolution
Posted on 07/23/2012Horror games are dead. Let’s back up a little. The E3 demonstrations of Resident Evil 6 and Dead Space 3, 2 of the top 3 “horror” franchises in gaming (Silent... -
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How Sports Games Fail Us
Posted on 07/16/2012I’ve been playing the newest edition of EA Sports’ NCAA Football series with my usual aplomb since I received it about a week ago. I am a hardcore football fan...
