The latest in Features (page 88)
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PewDiePie’s apology wasn’t enough, so how can we turn this into a positive movement?
It all began on September 9. YouTube’s (and the world's) most popular gaming personality, Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg, was livestreaming the game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. He…
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Hellblade’s creator: ‘The experiences that I’ve heard of are beyond anything I could imagine.’
According to Tameem Antoniades, co-founder of the UK based studio Ninja Theory, the hardest part about making an 'independent AAA' game is — apart…
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The man who made up a thousand video games talks Twitter, giraffes, and the axis of cockney hard men
About a year ago, Nate Crowley (pronounced like the bird, or, if you prefer, the famous occultist) tweeted that, for each like the tweet…
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Bad internet and frozen eyelashes: making a horror game in the coldest city on Earth
Yakutsk in Siberia is the coldest city on Earth. That's not hyperbole. Yakutsk has the lowest winter temperatures of any city, anywhere — it…
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Cuphead will eat you alive
In recent weeks, one thing has come to the fore with Cuphead: the difficulty. As press, YouTubers, and everyone in between got their hands…
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Super Lucky’s Tale highlights the problems of 3D platformers
A cute little fox greeted me on the title screen, urging me to ‘Come on!’ like an overexcited child. I quickly decided this Tails…
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How Sea of Thieves’ random events made a lasting impression
At large showcase events you generally get to see a lot of games, but only a little bit of each. It’s hard to a…
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LawBreakers fans on why you should play it, and what went wrong
Something I've been watching with great interest is the progress of LawBreakers or, to be more accurate, the lack of progress of LawBreakers, Cliff…
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How Uncharted: The Lost Legacy broke a promise it made to me
Spoiler warning. This article is about a specific thing in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, and that thing is unfortunately also a spoiler. This spoiler…
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Forget Hellblade’s permadeath, games lie to us all the time, and it’s good when they do
This article has some mild to severe spoilers for the following games: Gone Home; Knights of the Old Republic; Heavy Rain; Spec Ops: The…