Month: December 2021

  • Clockwork Aquario

    Clockwork Aquario

    Thirty-five years ago people left the comfort of their house and headed to a place filled with hulking machines that each had one video game loaded into them. Known as ‘arcades’, people would drop 20p into a waiting slot and the game would spring to life. One of the producers of these arcade games was…

  • Bustafellows

    Bustafellows

    In all my years of playing video games, I never thought I’d be pulled into the genre of visual novels. Perhaps it was my own prejudice against games where there’s a lot of reading and not a lot else; I prefer games where I control a character and make them dance like the polygon puppets…

  • A Juggler’s Tale

    A Juggler’s Tale

    Blue Fairy: Yes Pinocchio, I’ve given you life. Pinocchio: Why? I don’t want to go visiting the intentions of why indie devs make “Small Child Scary World” games. Now, I’m not saying that indie devs are suppressing some sort of contempt for children. And I’m certainly not speculating that many of them are recent parents,…

  • Cyberpunk 2077

    Cyberpunk 2077

    In 2012, I had already hung up my bag of ridiculous-sided dice and retired my character sheets back into the draw of stuff, but from the moment CD Projekt Red announced Cyberpunk 2077 was in development, I knew I was going to own it. Based on Mike Pondsmith’s popular tabletop role playing game Cyberpunk 2020,…

  • 6Souls

    6Souls

    If you really want to make it as an adventurer then you need to have a few things: bravery and curiosity come top of the list, then a sharp wit, and then ideally a snappy catchphrase and a signature look. That said, if you want to hit the absolute top-tier of adventurer herodom then you…