Videogame Review - FTL: Faster Than Light
The universe of FTL: Faster Than Light is riven by conflict between the previously ascendant Federation and plucky rebels. The player is...
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Game Review: QWOP
“One of the key tasks in designing any digital game is developing good, intuitive controls.” This statement, from Game Design Workshop: A...
Game Review: Lovely Planet
Lovely Planet is a mix between a first-person shooter and a 3D platformer that takes mechanics from each genre to absurd extremes. It is...
Game Review: Kung Fu Panda DS
In the 2008 blockbuster film Kung Fu Panda, right before his body transcends into cherry blossom petals as he leaves this world, master...
Game Review: The Beginner's Guide
From one angle, The Beginner’s Guide is easy to dismiss as flat and obvious— but, like a prism, the more you look at it, the more you...
Game Review: NBA 2K19
With the start of the 2018-19 National Basketball Association season upon us, both fans and gamers alike rejoice, as it’s time for...
Game Review - Her Story
The Full Motion Video game (FMV) carries a lot of unfortunate genre baggage. This is due in no small part to Sega's notorious 1992...
Game Review: Mass Effect 2 - No Middle Sliders
The Paragon-Renegade system is among the defining characteristics of developer Bioware’s Mass Effect trilogy (2007-2012). The system...
Game Review: Minit
Minit is a 2D adventure video game published by Devolver Digital that was released earlier this year in April on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. I...
Game Review: Universal Paperclips
Universal Paperclips welcomes you with no instructions, just a clickable button with the text “make paperclip”. You can also set prices,...
Militant Games, Gamified Military
Today’s presentation and lecture on FPS, militant games, and gamified military training induces me to bring in a finding from another...
Game Review: Yume Nikki
(Content Warning: Discussion of mental illness, violence, and suicide.) Yume Nikki is an RPG Maker game released in 2004 and recently...
Game Review: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
When most people think about Square Enix’s Final Fantasy series, we are treated to what some might term as ‘peak JRPG’. We think of...
Game Review: Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes
Her Interactive’s 25th Nancy Drew video game, Alibi in Ashes (2011), is a first-person perspective point-and-click adventure and puzzle...
Game Review: Crusader Kings II
The first thing a new player will be overwhelmed by when they open Crusader Kings II is the sheer number of characters available. You...
Game Review: Factorio
Factorio is a successful game by many different standards. As an indie game made by a small studio, it has been widely received well and...
Game Review: Osu!
Osu! (2007) is a music video game for PC in which the player hits circles on the screen to the rhythm of a song. A successful “hit”...
Game Review: Mother 3
Best known to western audiences at “The game with the blonde kid from smash”, Mother 3 is the magnum opus of Japanese copywriter...
Playing [as] the Victim
Upon opening Curtain for the first time, I was immediately reminded of Ryerson’s Problem Attic for one obvious reason - the pixelated...
Game Review: FIFA 19 - The Clash Between Artgame and Realism
The FIFA series, one of the notorious juggernauts of sport-simulation games, has been around since late 1993. Whilst not the first soccer...
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