Back in the mid-90s, Japanese studio Genki were responsible for a series of games called Shutokō Battle, known (mostly) in the West as Tokyo Xtreme Racer. From 1994-2006 these games
Lonely Mountains: Downhill is one of my favorite games, a 2019 mountain biking sort of racer/ sort of Zen exploration of a virtual wilderness. Developer Megagon released a skiing-focused sequel
Grand Theft Hamlet is a documentary that follows two out-of-work actors, struggling during UK covid lockdowns, trying to stage a production of Hamlet in Rockstar’s online game. It tells
This morning, thanks to the folks at RockPaperShotgun, I checked out the Steam demo for Locator, which calls itself a “Geoguessr-inspired detective game set on an alien planet.” I’m
The swimming in recent indie game Naiad absolutely rules, which is good because you do a lot of it. You play as a water nymph who drifts around doing little
I would like to spend every day playing rock climbing games, which are currently the closest I can get to actual climbing until I somehow solve all of my scheduling
Can you believe Star Wars Outlaws only came out three months ago? For all the anguish, criticism and hand-wringing it inspired it feels more like 17 years.
Surveying this discourse,
Songs Of Silence, man, where has this game been hiding? Last week I had never even heard of it. For the week since I have been doing nothing but playing
As teens in the 90s, a high school history teacher introduced my sister and me to Irish politics. Names like Patrick Pearse and Bobby Sands became common in our house,
