Cuphead Animation—the Good, the Great, and the Amazing Before we begin, I need to give a huge thank you to Cuphead animator Jake Clark for posting some of his wonderful pencil tests of the game’s animation…
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Getting it Right, Day One Update: An excellent new story trailer for One Piece: World Seeker was released at Tokyo Game Show 2018, detailing two new, game-original characters. The first is Isaac, the warden of the…
Strap In for 35 Minutes of Pure Nintendo Bliss Update: The Direct has been delayed following the recent earthquake in Hokkaido, with Nintendo stating that it will provide an updated date and time “in the near…
The Player Doesn’t Always Need to be the Center of the Universe Most games try to make the player feel significant and essential to the world presented. No Man’s Sky does the opposite, and that…
I Said What I Meant and I Meant What I Said Male video-game protagonists deserve better butts. And you know what? Those butts deserve our attention. If you’re designing a character, why not include a…
The Elder Scrolls VI – Going Beyond Skyrim Now that we have official confirmation that The Elder Scrolls VI isn’t going to become the new Half-Life 3 thanks to the brief teaser shown at Bethesda’s E3…
Disclaimer: This post was written in response to the Let’s Go Treehouse Presentation at E3 2018. A post updating these problems with first-hand experience will come soon. “Caterpie Can’t Hack it” Let’s Go, Pikachu!…
Subtraction by Addition I recently tried my hand at State of Decay 2, an Xbox One/PC exclusive where the player attempts to build a functioning community in a world ravaged by a zombie apocalypse. The…
The One Zelda Game Nobody Talks About The Legend of Zelda is one of the most famous and highly regarded franchises in the history of video games, but that doesn’t mean every entry in the series…
Was This Ever Really the Best Gaming Could Do? Before I begin my parade-raining, dream-crushing, actually-what-you-like-is-bad analysis of one of the most popular video games of my lifetime, let me make something clear: I like…