Lock On • 17/05/2022

Beyond White Walls

I chatted with several developers on how they are preserving, showcasing and promoting paintings and other art through their games.

TheGamer • 11/05/2022

Morse Lets You Launch Rockets And Kill Soldiers With Morse Code

Morse, which was recently featured at LudaNarraCon, reminds me a little of Typing of the Dead, minus the satirical elements and slathered with a generous layer of bureaucracy.

TheGamer • 11/05/2022

Looking Back At The History of iPod Click Wheel Games

Pour one out for the iPod Touch: the era of this portable music player is finally over two decades after it began.

TheGamer • 10/05/2022

Hard West 2 Preview – Tactical Gunfights

Hard West 2 begins with the quintessential Wild West-style heist: hijacking a moving steam train while on horseback, set in winding dirt roads amidst sprawling mountain ranges.

TheGamer • 05/05/2022

Best Month Ever! Review - A Meandering Road Trip

Best Month Ever wants to be a poignant road trip, but meanders for way too long.

TheGamer • 25/04/2022

Revisiting Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season One, Ten Years Later

In the end, Telltale’s take on The Walking Dead succeeds not from the expansiveness of its tale, but from the strength of its writing.

TheGamer • 20/04/2022

Ghostlore Is A Decent Diablo ARPG With Southeast Asian Influences

Discarding the Judeo-Christian mythology of hellfire and brimstone is Ghostlore, a Diablo-like action RPG that still seeks to replicate the same clickiness of Diablo.

TheGamer • 14/04/2022

Axie Infinity Is A Classic Example Of What’s To Come For NFT Games

The thing about Axie Infinity is that for the bulk of its players, it isn’t really a game; it’s actually a job, and the Axie economy hasn’t always been thriving.

TheGamer • 13/04/2022

The Beauty of Oblivion’s Map

Maps are, by now, de rigueur for RPGs, particularly those with huge open-world systems, and Oblivion sought to follow the Tolkien tradition of map-making.

TheGamer • 13/04/2022

In Light of Recent Controversies in Games Dev, One Publisher Wants To Change How Games Are Made

A profile on indie publisher Kinda Brave.

TheGamer • 13/04/2022

Chinatown Detective Agency Review - Singaporean Cyberpunk

Sleuthing, when done right, can be downright exhilarating, and that’s the magic behind Chinatown Detective Agency; such eureka moments can feel hard-earned and well-deserved when you manage to make some headway into your case.

First Person Scholar • 07/04/2022

Decolonising queer games and play

The narrative of queer time, and other unconventional depictions of queerness are often hampered by the overwhelming whiteness of queer protagonists in games.

TheGamer • 05/04/2022

Norco Review - A Narrative Masterpiece

I watch its characters navigate the debris of their loneliness, debt and trauma, attend decadent dinner parties hosted by the fat cats of the oil industry, and infiltrate the abandoned malls and headquarters of a doomsday cult.

TheGamer • 31/03/2022

Unravelling The Meaning of Tunic’s Mysterious Language

I speak to Andrew Shouldice on creating a whole new language from scratch.

TheGamer • 25/03/2022

Nightmare Reaper Is A Doom-Style FPS That Doesn’t Rise Above Its Influence

Nightmare Reaper is crafted in the crimson, pulpy mould of ‘90s FPSes Doom and Quake, complete with rapid player movement, non-stop stabbing and gunning, and oodles of blood and guts in bouts of all-out battles against hellspawns and undead monsters.

TheGamer • 22/03/2022

Tunic Review - Throwback to Classic Zelda

There’s no denying the irresistible charm of Tunic, even if its mistake is its fixation with the very rose-tinted days of classic Zelda.

TheGamer • 12/03/2022

Behind The Gruesome Death Scenes of Horror Soft’s Horror Games

Delving into the horror games of the late 80s and early 90s, with a focus on the developer Horror Soft, a studio that's adept at crafting pixelated gore.

TheGamer • 11/03/2022

The Beginnings and Rising Popularity of Simulation Games

I chart the history and rise of modern simulation games in this comprehensive piece.

TheGamer • 04/03/2022

Who’s Lila’s 1-bit Horror Forces You To Adjust Your Facial Expressions On The Fly

I write about Who's Lila, one of the more frightful indie games in (my) recent memory.

TheGamer • 03/03/2022

Revisiting Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, 10 Years Later

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare sits on a lonely pedestal within the connected universe of Remedy Entertainment’s games, which include Alan Wake, Control and Quantum Break.