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
Reasons to Love #2 – Monster Train
A new genre is emerging. In the wake of games like Slay the Spire, the deck-building roguelike appears to have established … Read more
G-String Review – Trying To Do Too Much?
G-String, developed by Eyaura, is the latest game to take a crack at seminal Source shooter Half-Life’s winning formula. Solo-developed for … Read more
Timeless Blues – A Look Back at Robert Johnson
With the spooky season almost upon us, I thought now would be as good a time as any for a … Read more
Reasons to Love #1 – Hunt Showdown
Hello and welcome to “Reasons to Love”, a new series dedicated to shining a light on the interesting, the unusual, … Read more
Stuck in Limbo: The “Purgatorial British Sitcom”
The British are famous for their deadpan, absurd, and yet unrelentingly bleak comedy. I grew up in England so It’s … Read more
What Merchant of the Skies Taught Me About Games, and Myself
I’ve played a lot of games. That’s one of the few things I feel I can state with certainty. I … Read more