After 162 hours I have finally “beaten” Blue Prince, or at least I think I have. I know that I have wrapped up the puzzles and discovered and solved the
Being a writer in any reliably compensated position is rare and getting rarer. Reporting and media criticism is rarer still, and the number of people who get paid to write
What if Riven was a roguelite? What if Telling Lies was a deckbuilder? What if Pipe Mania was themed like The Masque of the Red Death? What if the board game Carcassonne was also a mystery novel?
Psycho Patrol R, currently in early access, is the followup to the abrasive, brilliant shooter Cruelty Squad by Consumer Softproducts (aka developer Ville Kallio), a shooter that launched many insufferable YouTube essays and countless very good speedruns. While Cruelty Squad was primarily a shooter,
We learned more about the Nintendo Switch 2 today, in an hour-long Direct that featured a lot of hardware specs, a lot of games, and notably no information about the
Despite the best efforts of Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav to erase the legacy of the Looney Tunes entirely, there is a fully animated Looney Tunes movie in theaters, and
Assassin's Creed Shadows is gorgeous, but does it succeed in the narrative it’s trying to tell? And how does it balance historical accuracy with having a good time? On the latest episode of Aftermath Hours, we talk about it.
In Assassin's Creed Shadows nature is, for lack of a better word, dense. This is not just a problem that games set in Japan have; it’s a problem that open world games set in nature have on the whole. Forests do not feel like forests, they feel like video game forests.
As a general rule, I respect what The Wirecutter does. Aside from being owned by The New York Times, a genocidal and transphobic rag whose editorial board frequently undermines good
Recently I went to CanJam NYC, a headphone convention that took place on the sixth floor of a Marriott in Times Square. Can Jam rocks because it’s full of
I am trying not to make Aftermath into a knife-focused blog, despite having already written glowingly about Japanese utility knives. But I’m afraid that I must also recommend my
