Bioshock had big ideas of overturning standard approaches to video game storytelling, questioning philosophies, the horrors humanity can fall to, and the nature of free will. It even…
This January, I ended up going to three different child-oriented stage shows involving puppets in the space of four weeks. Fortuitously, we saw them in ascending order of…
Let’s start with where I ended on the original Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, two years and two massive-selling Call of Duty games ago. “Modern Warfare treats…
For this guest post I am happy to welcome my friend Daisy Letourneur, who you can find on twitter at @DaisyLetourneur. Searching for Wii Fit Plus reviews, Google…
Like other people’s dreams or AI outputs, hearing other people’s Football Manager stories can be a bit of an awkward bore. Not always, though. Brian Phillips’s creative series…
Forza Motorsport 2 was such an accomplished version of the serious road car racing genre popularised by Gran Turismo that there wasn’t anywhere too obvious to take it…
As I first started playing Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, something unprecedented happened. I won my first match. Not just that but I won it comfortably, 3-0. As I…
There is a cutscene near the start of Uncharted 2, a flashback revealing the inciting incident for its plot, which took me by surprise. It involves lead character…