The latest in Features (page 84)
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Reasons it is absurd that the new Dragon Age game has not been confirmed yet
1. BioWare staff keep talking about it, all the time: February 19 2016 – Executive Producer Mark Darrah uses a Twitter poll to ask…
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Fortnite’s five-year plan: inspiring a Battle Royale revolution
The Battle Royale genre is all over the place as of late, and the gaming community just can’t seem to get enough of it. One…
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6 potential new careers for Billy ‘King of Kong’ Mitchell
Barely a week ago we got the news that Billy Mitchell, arcade cabinet wunderkind who held records on games like Donkey Kong and Pac-Man,…
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This is your games on brain: a look at games about mental health
We, as a community, are very quick to talk about how games help us cope with our mental health if asked (which I did,…
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Beckett, Apocalipsis, and the power of beige
Games are deliberately very selective with their colour palettes, because colours are very strong signifiers that evoke different emotions or give different thematic clues.…
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Can a game where Wario writes sonnets prove games are art and fix microtransactions?
This interview has been edited to fit (extremely roughly, so please don't check) iambic pentameter. Alice Bell has never interviewed Nate Crowley before. ACT…
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The most accurately portrayed accents in video games
In honour of the re-release of Assassin's Creed Rogue, we've been revisiting the way video games do accents. Our medium of choice gets a…
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This is your brain on games: are they making us more aggressive?
This week the man Americans saw fit to make their President held a meeting with some high up members of the games industry and,…
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Top 5 video games based on movies
It’s that time of the year again where we can’t help getting swept up in all the pumping circumstance that comes along with the…
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The 6 stages of the Konami/Kojima break-up that make the secret Metal Gear Survive message extra tragic
Only a few days ago, Reddit noticed a secret message at the start of the at best luke-warmly received Metal Gear Survive. If you…