How I became... a Senior Lighting Artist at Firesprite Games
by Aaron Potter | Nov 28, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Interviews
Ellen Shelley on the importance of using light to set atmosphere and how to avoid creative exhaustion
Gaming
Roll7 | how the studio reinvented the skating genre with OlliOlliWorld and Rollerdrome
by Aaron Potter | Nov 25, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
Co-founder Thomas Hegarty reflects on the studio’s educational origins, all the way up to the skater’s paradise it is today
Dreamed Away preview | Recapturing the feeling of childhood RPGs
by Aaron Potter | Nov 24, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Previews
Software engineer turned solo dev Nicolas Petton discusses his French-inspired homage to Mother
Mystical Ninja | the Goemon games Konami never brought to the west
by Jack Yarwood | Nov 23, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
We explore Konami’s underappreciated Ganbare Goemon series, and the games the West never got
Gungrave G.O.R.E review | Superfluous style, lacklustre action
by Aaron Potter | Nov 22, 2022 | Gaming, Reviews
Third-person shooter revival is a grave state of affairs
Lode Runner | Inspiring would-be designers since the 1980s
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 21, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
How the eighties platformer’s level editor gave players the chance to awaken their inner game designer
Spells & Secrets preview | Live out your wizard school fantasies
by Aaron Potter | Nov 18, 2022 | Gaming, Previews
Alchemist Interactive’s Roman Matuszczak talks making magic in Spells & Secrets, a wholesome wizard school roguelike
A Plague Tale: Requiem review | Rat-infested sequel ups the bleak ante
by Aaron Potter | Nov 17, 2022 | Gaming, Reviews
Far from innocence
Opinion | The cautionary tale of Odin Computer Graphics
by Kim Justice | Nov 16, 2022 | Gaming, Opinions
Nodes of Yesod was Odin’s first and best-known game, a beautiful micro adventure where moles eat walls and muggers steal your stuff
Stray Blade preview | making fantasy action RPGs approachable again
by Aaron Potter | Nov 15, 2022 | Gaming, Previews
Point Blank Games’ upcoming high-fantasy RPG straddles Souls-like technical action and approachability. Introducing Stray Blade…
Opinion | Why there’s more to the pixel art revival than nostalgia
by Craig Grannell | Nov 14, 2022 | Gaming, Opinions
Craving the blocky approximations of shapes found in 1980s video games
Cheat codes, and their long, fascinating history
by Phil King | Nov 11, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
Loved by some, loathed by others, cheat codes have a long and fascinating history
The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow review | Frightfully effective folk horror
by Lewis Packwood | Nov 09, 2022 | Gaming, Reviews
This is a local shop for local people; there’s nothing for you here
In media res: beginning in the middle
by Stuart Maine | Nov 08, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
The techniques behind beginning a game in media res, and when should you use it or avoid it
Mr Biffo's Game History: The surprising history of sprites
by Paul Rose | Nov 07, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
Video game graphics owe a huge debt to Nolan Bushnell and a chap named Danny Hillis
Vampire Survivors review | An action RPG with bite
by Damiano Gerli | Nov 04, 2022 | Gaming, Reviews
Sucking up blood, pasta, and all of your time.
Andy “Nitro Rifle” Cortez | Kinda Funny and making a career out of streaming
by Aaron Potter | Nov 03, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Interviews
“I wish there was a way I could see myself react to certain moments again”
Vikings on Trampolines preview | Bouncing and brawling rolled into one
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 01, 2022 | Gaming, Previews
The creators of Owlboy return with the bounciest multiplayer brawler in the land
Dead Space | the making of a classic, terrifying horror series
by Graeme Mason | Oct 31, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
How EA's Sci-Fi horror series has constantly thrilled – and chilled – players for the past 15 years
Ghost Song preview | a murky Metroidvania
by Aaron Potter | Oct 28, 2022 | Gaming, Previews
How Old Moon’s Matt White used his graphic design background to create a more painterly style of sci-fi Metroidvania
Arcade Paradise review | A pixel perfect coin-op recreation
by Andrew J Dickinson | Oct 27, 2022 | Gaming, Reviews
Insert coins, build an empire
Howard Scott Warshaw | What it's like to work in a brand new medium
by Howard Scott Warshaw | Oct 26, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
Howard Scott Warshaw recalls the early years of the games industry - and the first ever licenced game, Raiders of the Lost Ark...
Narrative Design | Tropes vs fiction in video games
by Antony de Fault | Oct 25, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
Tropes are bad, right? Wrong! Antony illuminates how tropes can be used intelligently in good storytelling
Resident Evil | How save rooms relieved the stresses of survival horror
by Aaron Potter | Oct 24, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
Getting some respite within gaming's residences of evil
P.T. | The lasting influence of Hideo Kojima's lost horror game
by Aaron Potter | Oct 21, 2022 | Feature, Gaming
How Hideo Kojima’s notorious P.T. demo has shaped a new age of minimalist psychological horror
New Tales From the Borderlands review: Another successful spin-off story
by Aaron Potter | Oct 20, 2022 | Gaming, Reviews
Gearbox delivers an artful tweak to the Telltale formula
Opinion | How Don't Buy This monetised some terrible games
by Kim Justice | Oct 19, 2022 | Gaming, Opinions
Surely nobody would set out to purposely make and sell a bad game. Surely.
Gord preview | Survival strategy serves up horrors beyond your comprehension
by Ryan Lambie | Oct 17, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Previews
From the producer of The Witcher 3 comes a new strategy city-building hybrid. We get a guided tour of Gord
The Devil In Me: the Dark Pictures finale could be the scariest episode yet
by Ryan Lambie | Oct 14, 2022 | Gaming, Interviews, Previews
Director Tom Heaton talks exclusively about The Devil in Me, the final episode in The Dark Pictures Anthology’s first season
From Isolation to Observation: The No Code story
by Ryan Lambie | Oct 13, 2022 | Feature, Gaming, Interviews
Writer-director Jon McKellan tells the fascinating story of his path into the games industry, and how Alien: Isolation led to co-founding his own indie studio
Saints Row review | Open-world reboot has little guile or personality
by Jon Bailes | Oct 12, 2022 | Gaming, Reviews
Unoriginal sin
Ripout preview | A different strain of co-op shooter
by Aaron Potter | Oct 11, 2022 | Gaming, Previews
Inside this co-op FPS with plenty of genetically engineered horrors for you (and your pet gun) to sink teeth into
