I was a big fan of 2013’s Monaco, a top-down, pixel art heist game with a Rashomon-esque plot. It was clearly meant to be played co-op, where your friends
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
While onboarding with Aftermath, I went on a tangent, laying bare all my frustrations with manga-reading apps while pitching a blog. After spewing a word salad for what felt like
This morning, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos shared a new direction for the paper’s opinion section, both with staff and, for some reason, with all of Twitter: from now
I finished Avowed last night, and despite all the tense battles and carnage and explosive effects and beautiful colours on display during the game's closing hours, I'
It has been said countless times and by people far more eloquent than me, but fuck Warner Bros. Fuck ‘em! Fuck both the company generally and CEO David Zaslav specifically
I’m floating in space, clinging to the hull of a spaceship. I peer in through a trash chute – not the most glamorous window into the ship’s vacuum-sealed world,
Overwatch 2 is in the middle of an extended identity crisis. I feel like the game’s worried friend: I’m constantly throwing an eye over to them as they
Neon White designer Ben Esposito once joked “in game design, ‘environmental storytelling’ is the art of placing skulls near a toilet.” I have yet to see a toilet in Avowed,
Stories about the collapse of civilization are starting to hit too close to home to be fun now that we're living in “historic times” every week. Despite living
What a week Microsoft has had. On one hand, it published a clear game of the year contender in Avowed, a fantasy role-playing game jam-packed with surprises and inventive touches.
