WHAT THE HELL IS A COMEBACK TOUR There’s one sound that can get me every time. Something that every time I hear it, my brain immediately does the hyper-speed jump into the past. I find myself cross legged on a maroon carpet, sun pouring through the windows. I’m a kid, I give a shit about…
STUPID ENOUGH TO THROW MY LIFE AWAY
My grandmothers funeral was yesterday. Do you know what the day before that was? Devil May Cry 5 got released. I’ve been playing the Devil May Cry series since I was a teenager: I’ve been dreaming of it since before that. The earliest screenshots captured some part of my imagination. Today I still remember…
YOU CAN’T GET THERE BY DRIVING
Else Heart.Break() Is a videogame about programming and computers, or maybe it’s a videogame about community and relationships. Now I am primarily a writer, so I don’t understand how those work: but I do understand how the human heart works. It’s my gift, or maybe a little bit of my curse. Maybe i’m just a…
CHOP TILL YOU DROP
Dead Rising (Chop Till You Drop) There was a singularly high profile Zombie Game released a week or two ago now, and I didn’t comment on it. While I’ve been letting Resident Evil 2 bake in my head for a few days after playing it initially. I’m drawn to Raccoon City. As a kid, I…
character creation
There’s a ship floating above the planet Io, just high enough it could drop out of safe orbit in a matter of seconds. Its pilot is a fierce guardian – though she’s likely more interested in stretching her legs and enjoying a few minutes to air out on the safety of her ship. I don’t…
WHAT YOUR FAVORITE GAME IN 2018 SAID ABOUT YOU
The days after Christmas, December 25, aren’t really a part of the year, and they aren’t really a part of next year, either. Maybe they’re the days just there at the end of the calendar to ride out holiday hangovers. Maybe, they’re the space for sitting in bed too afraid to go outside. Wishing you’d…
Streets of New York, Streets of Gotham
Where are you from? Maybe it’s just part of my generation and our anxiety, but I feel defined by where I’m from to the point it’s getting hard to relate it to people as I get older. There’s probably a dead guy with a good book about collective experience being tied to where we’re from….
Fallout 76
That’s a quote from Polygon.com’s recent article about, of all things, Fallout 76. Maybe somewhere that quote should be printed out, framed, and hung in an office. Everyone who walks in that specific office that wants to take part in the time honored tradition of writing about videogames has to read that quote, over and…
ARTICLES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
This is basically the clip show version of updating a website, huh. Laugh with friends over all the good memories – cue credits. GEORGE ROMERO’S DARK SOULS – A look at the mechanic of death and rebirth in Dark Souls, just after George Romero’s passing. PERSONA (SOCIAL SIMULATOR?) – A look at the…