The Mirror’s Edge Catalyst closed beta is finished and after three days of short-but-sweet hands-on gameplay, I find myself yearning for parkour in all other games. I can’t even play Fallout now without the urge to leap off debris, land on shambled rooftops, run off of dirt walls, and drop kick the face off of a …
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Telltale’s The Walking Dead Feminism has become a hugely strong and inspirational movement in the last decade seeing campaigns for equality in all sectors, on all platforms. Women in the work place are far more respected and are winning the battle on unfair wages day by day. Women …
Whenever an artistic medium dares to cheat on its loyal fanbase by scurrying over to another, anger and thinkpieces likely follow. Technology has amped up an uncanny-valley-sort of realism in video games. Movies have added more CGI to its blockbuster spectacles and animation. Thus, the previously distinct media have drawn blurrier lines with consumers none too pleased.
AAA (triple A) video games and the people who play them need to get over their embarrassing and childish insecurity. If I spent as much time getting in shape as gaming culture spends defending their chosen art form from mostly imagined assaults, I would have the abs of Ryan Reynolds. “We’re art too!” everyone cries, …