By Ronald Gordon Throughout my years of gaming, I’ve encountered many different story-driven games. Games such as Galactic Cafe’s The Stanley Parable have an overall narrative, directed at you which is explained in voice-over, which can easily be subverted and overwritten if the player sees fit, leaving the narrator to create a different story from…
By Kimari Rennis It’s got that necessary dash of mystery. But it’s much more. Unforeseen Incidents is a 2-D point-and-click adventure game that requires you to collect items throughout your environment to solve puzzles. The game is one of a kind with its music, characters and atmospheres that players feel encouraged to jump into and engage…
By Desiree Bonilla Losing things is part of being human, but did you ever wonder where those missing items go? I lost my headphones once, and I remember being really frustrated because I had no way to listen to music. I spent all day looking around for them. Maybe my headphones ended up in a…
By Harold Goldberg While I think it’s a real honor to go to and cover the Game Developers Conference, I found one bothersome character trait coming through in personalities who led almost all of the education and narrative-oriented talks I was privileged enough to attend. It’s too much ego. One of the tenets of the…
By Donovan Floyd The full release of EA’s sequel to Battlefront (2015) is now out, and with that, gamers have full access to everything Battlefront 2 has to offer. Gameplay-wise not much has changed from the Beta. But we now have access to all of the maps and game modes. The main thing I want to…
In which the author learns much and hears the sage words, “Fuck the internet. I swear to God.” by Jill Scharr It’s one thing to write about videogames. It’s quite another thing to write for them. That’s why I attended NYU’s weekend long “Games Writing Master Class” a few weeks ago. The class was taught…
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