Guest author Alex Orona is a contributor to the Super GG Radio Podcast, which you can find here. The simulator genre has arisen from the depths of obscurity and […]
I played Crash Bandicoot on PlayStation when it originally released, but it’s one of the games of that generation that never clicked. I think I was obsessed with more action-oriented […]
My tabletop role-playing group has been playing a lot of Alien: The Roleplaying Game by Free League Publishing. It’s a great, tense reproduction of the Alien movies with rules and […]
I can remember my “git gud” moments in video games pretty clearly. I always think I’m good enough, and then something comes along to challenge that—whether it is insanely good […]
Everything has an origin story, but not all origin stories are created equal. Sometimes things begin without much fanfare–but sometimes the story of how things came together is one of […]
Tower defense games are a bit of a stigma to some. Unless you can stand out from the crowd, you’re doing what’s already been done before. But when a tower […]
To some the subgenre “roguelike” is a bad word. It means difficult gameplay, and to some, frustration. What if I told you that roguelikes aren’t all for hardcore gamers, and […]
I love co-op games. Playing with my wife or friends is great, and made even greater if we’re working together to achieve the same goal. And we’ll play all sorts […]
A few years ago everyone was excited for Banished—a colony building game where you had to see a group of people create a home for themselves in harsh wilderness. The […]
The last time we saw the gang from VGA Gallery, things were a lot different. It was January 2020 and we were crowding the VGA Gallery’s small space on Bloomingdale […]
If you’re playing a modern racing game, you should expect some sort of drift mechanic to come into play. In a more serious racing sim, then it might be possible […]
Taking on too much all at once is usually a bad idea. That said, it doesn’t usually stop creators. This can lead to a great triumph, a catastrophe, or, in […]