The Allure of AAA Pulls Me Back In 2018 was an atypical year for me in media consumption. I took a bit of a sabbatical from playing games for the first half of 2018 and…
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Highlighting the Best of an Impressive Year for Games Many have said that 2017 was a particularly special year for gaming, but I actually feel like 2018 was better. Not necessarily in the sense that…
Five Favorites as 2018 Comes to a Close I think that 2018 was a pretty alright year for video games. I’ve never really subscribed to triple-A game industry hype trains. Mostly because I’ve never really…
The Punished Backlog Crew’s Creative Endeavor: Inktober 2018 Hopefully this year’s “Spooky Month” treated you well, unless you’re reading this in the future, in which case this doesn’t apply and also has Todd gotten to…
Big Predictions for the Biggest Night in Games Correction: Don’t expect to see The Last of Us Part II Thursday night, as Naughty Dog recently tweeted that they don’t be showing anything from the title at…
Everyone Is Here I’ve always believed the strength of a fighting game’s roster helps to define it’s longevity. It’s one of the reasons the Super Smash Bros. franchise is so infinitely replayable. For Super Smash…
Disclaimer: This game is super long and I have so many thoughts about it, and there’s just no way one article can encompass all of those thoughts. Red Dead Redemption 2 might very well be…
Meet the Newest Generation of Platform Fighters The “platform fighter” genre has existed for decades, even if the specific phrase to describe them didn’t reach mass relevance until years later. For the longest time, it…
Exploring the Icy Depths of Subnautica Below Zero Roughly two weeks ago, Unknown Worlds announced the follow up to Subnautica—a wildly popular, survival-exploration game unlike any other in the marketplace. As a quick recap,unlike other…
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…