Football Manager: What it Taught Me About Life
For all the pretensions I could contrive about gaming, I come back to a plain fact: games are regularly a form of fantasy-living for me. I write about games, think about games, and play a variety to both enjoy myself and fortify that writing and thinking. But when I think […]
Becoming What You Fear the Most: The Vicious Cycle Within League of Legends
To me League of Legends represents a paradox of conflicting emotions that lie at extreme ends of the gaming experience. On the one hand, it is an incredibly good video game. Some of my finest mouse-clicking memories have been created in it. It’s addictive, satisfying even when you’re losing and […]
Another World: The Art and Games of Eric Chahi
If, like me, you are a desiccated old fossil of a human, limping from one day of bone-creaking agony to another, you’ll no doubt remember both the Commodore C64 and the Commodore Amiga. These were ostensibly some of the first widely available “personal computers” for the average human being, and […]
A subjective response to the style of new games journalism
On Wednesday 26 March 2014, Jake and I went to a panel discussion about the new games journalism – the idea that games writing should be about the player’s experience, not the game’s mechanics. Here are some things it made me think about. The new games journalism, says Kieron Gillen’s […]