I went to college in a rolling campus up on a forested hill, where the woods served as a playground on bored Sunday evenings, and frequent late-night power outages meant sneaking into empty administrative buildings, or finally searching for that deserted amphitheater tucked away in the forest, resig
The feeling of movement is arguably the most important thing in a platformer. Super Meat Boy’s outrageous complexity might not be as engaging if its hero weren’t so smoothly controlled, and Thomas Was Alone was granted mounds more character by the sheer perfection of its jump button alone. “a strong
They say that the last 20% of a project is 80% of the work. In game development, a lot of the time that means bug clean-up. But when it comes to a game as visually appealing as The Witness, Jonathan Blow’s upcoming first-person puzzle adventure, it turns out even the bugs are beautiful. According to
It’s been exactly a year since P.T. first graced the PlayStation Store as a playable teaser for Silent Hills. Since last August, the notorious demo has gone on to become a relic of a game that will never be, but also a strong standalone experience, and a reminder of what a little risk and creative f
Skyrim, the fifth installation of the long-running Elder Scrolls series, is known among other things for its intensive, high quality graphics and level of visual detail. Even then, it’s common for players on PC to install several graphical enhancement mods for even more realistic lighting, water, an
