Videogame Articles / Khee Hoon Chan

I write and edit for Unwinnable, with bylines in Rock Paper Shotgun, Polygon, PC Gamer, GameSpot, Eurogamer, USgamer, The Verge, EGM, Paste Magazine, VG247 and more.

I've done event coverage, interviews, features, reviews and op-eds. My pieces typically revolve around representation and diversity, the impact of videogames, and how they are shaped by—and in turn, influence—culture at large.

I'm also award-winning, although it makes me feel very self-conscious to mention it.

Syfy Wire • 08/06/2020

The paradoxes of time travel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Just as the classic sci-fi tale, taking a time-warping trip in Animal Crossing: New Horizons feels relatively straightforward.

USgamer • 13/05/2020

Red Candle Games Looks Back on Devotion, And The Controversy That Shook a Region

A profile piece on the much maligned studio, Red Candle Games.

The Verge • 10/03/2020

The rise of impossibly cute and wholesome games

There has been a boom in popularity for titles like Frog Detective lately; these are often quirky, relaxing, comical, perhaps a tad absurd, and devastatingly adorable. These are called “uwu games” — coined after the emoticon, which denotes an overwhelming sense of joy from experiencing an overload of cuteness.

USgamer • 03/03/2020

How Asia's Global Game Jam Developers Are Exploring the Coronavirus Outbreak Through Games

From tower defense games to resource management sims, these games from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan capture the anxiety around the coronavirus outbreak.

Eurogamer • 27/02/2020

Still fighting: meet the developers of Hong Kong protest games

I chatted with the developers behind some of the Hong Kong protest games, created in response to the country's unpopular extradition bill.

EGM • 17/01/2020

The Closing Walls Around China’s Independent Game Developers

Against nearly impossible odds, Chinese indies are forced to market their games to a global audience—and the challenges are only mounting.

PC Gamer • 25/11/2019

The battle to control what's fact and fiction in The Elder Scrolls' lore

The Warp in the West may seem difficult to comprehend, but it's just one of the many fantastical events that make up the Elder Scrolls lore, with what constitutes canon is being reinterpreted by ardent fans.

GameSpot • 17/09/2019

Greedfall Review

Greedfall's tales of colonialism and political subterfuge are tackled with such little nuance that it verges on parody, while relying heavily on these kinds of blunt narrative tropes for its setting, much in the same way it does on a very familiar open-world RPG structure.

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Magazine:

The Delicious, Open World Mystique of Fallen London
Mirror's Edge: The Legacy of Movement
Romancing the Krogan (Mass Effect issue)
Humor and the Homicidal Octopus
The Dark Side of Data
Senseless Violence

Exploits:

Rock Paper Shotgun

Polygon

PC Gamer

Magazine

March 2019 (Issue 315): Ape Out Preview

GameSpot

USgamer

Red Candle Games Looks Back on Devotion, And The Controversy That Shook a Region

The Verge

The Rise Of Impossibly Cute and Wholesome Games

SyFy Wire

The Paradoxes of Time Travel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

EGM

The Closing Walls Around China's Independent Game Developers
EGM's Best of 2019: Best of the Rest
- Devotion
- Sunless Skies
The Perpetual Tomorrow of Virtual Reality

VG247

Eurogamer

Fanbyte

Are VR Arenas the New Laser Tag?

Paste Magazine

Slant Magazine

Heterotopias

Bloody Disgusting

How Survival Horror Game ‘Stifled’ Uses Darkness to Pit Your Instincts Against You

GameDaily.biz

GameIndustry.biz

The Subtle Art of Crisis Management

The Indie Game Website

Waking review

Junk Asia

R.I.P. LAN Cafe

Videodame

Into The Spine

In Agony, Hell Is A Hollow Shell

ZAM (defunct)

Moonlighter review

Kill Screen (defunct)

Videogames Could Do A Lot More With The Venetian Mask

Pixel Dynamo (defunct)

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