All week long, Kim is covering GDC for the Circle. This is Part Four of her coverage there. All included photos are by Kimari Rennis. By Kimari Rennis Day 3 – Mar 20 9:00 AM PST As a game designer and a vehement fan of Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, it was my duty to…
By Kimari Rennis It all started with a call from Sylens on Aloy’s focus. After eradicating the Far Zeniths hell-bent on harvesting Earth for resources to prolong their escape from Nemesis, one of them slipped right from under our noses: Walter Londra. A celebrity and multi-billionaire from the 2060s, Walter Londra was adored by his…
Upon release, we ran this Horizon Forbidden West story. In an effort to show both sides, here is another take on the the Aloy saga. By Kimari Rennis I am a woman with simple tastes when it comes to video games. I need a strong female lead and a fresh, jarring narrative to change my…
By Harold Goldberg Update: About 15 hours into Horizon Forbidden West, my PS5 began slowing down to one frame per second. I have no idea why. But I couldn’t leave the game to reboot because I was in the middle of a boss fight. Once I was done, I began to look for a campfire,…
Greetings! Jon here, back again with the Circle Roundup. If you haven’t heard, NASA confirmed that it’s discovered seven planets with Earth-like conditions just 40 light-years away from us! Why is that important? Well for one, cosmologists say that water is the foundation of all life, so a planet that has liquid water would be…