On Photography: Humans, The Elusive Subjects
I was taking pictures of things for a long time before I stopped to seriously consider what it was about … Read more
Why Gaming’s Attempt to Copy The Oscars Makes Me Nervous
It’s no secret that gaming as an industry and an artistic medium has long had something of an inferiority complex … Read more
Games Are Art: A Response to Jonathan Jones
We have come a long way since 2012. I’d like to think that for the most part, we’re all a … Read more
Far Cry 3 and Games That Try to Do Everything
Until recently, I had never played Far Cry 3. I’d heard a lot about it, the charismatic villains, the beautiful … Read more
Skyrim Retrospective: An RPG Classic?
Skyrim was first released almost a decade ago. A lot has changed in that time, but Bethesda’s open-world epic is … Read more
My Neighbour Totoro: Bus Stop Ecology
My Neighbour Totoro, a film by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, is important for a number of different cultural and … Read more
Reasons To Love #3 – Risk of Rain 2
I need to make something clear. Yes, Risk of Rain 2, by Hopoo Games, is another roguelike, and yes roguelike … Read more
Sartre’s Nausea: No More Adventures
Nausea, by French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, is without question, an existentialist masterpiece. A poignant and incisive analysis of … Read more
Walden: Reflections by the Pond
“Our life is frittered away by detail, simplify, simplify“ Henry David Thoreau While never having been out of fashion, so … Read more
Flowers For Algernon: Emotion and the Intellect
At some point in their life, everyone has wished they were just a little bit smarter. Maybe you don’t understand … Read more