I wanted to write a 2012 predictions piece about how uncertain I am about what gaming in 2012 will look like. Unfortunately, I wasn’t exactly sure how I wanted to format such an article. By sheer coincidence, Tim Bray recently wrote a similar piece on his personal blog (albeit about topics much more serious …
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012 by christian2011 Year in Review
Saturday, December 31st, 2011 by christianLast time I did a year end retrospective, it posted two months after the end of the year. I won’t make the same mistake twice in a row. Here now are the highs and lows from my 2011 in games. Note, as always, that this is not a “best games of 2011″ list, nor did all …
Review – Async Corp.
Saturday, November 12th, 2011 by christianAsync Corp is the latest, and probably last release from indie developer house Powerhead Games. There are many reasons to mourn Powerhead’s departure, the biggest of which is that Async Corp. is a marked improvement over Glow Artisan, its award winning predecessor. While Glow was a wonderful concept, Async demonstrates …
Review – Kayne and Lynch
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 by christianKane and Lynch: Dead Men was, for lack of a better pun, dead on arrival in the minds of Internet savvy gamers, all thanks to the fiasco surrounding Jeff Gerstmann’s scathing review for Gamespot.com, and Eidos Interactive’s possible manipulation of the site. That being said, if the controversy never occurred, …
Time isn’t on my Side (and I’m okay)
Thursday, August 4th, 2011 by christianFormer VL writer and Powerhead Games designman Matt recently posted a question on Twitter, to which I responded as succinctly as a I could. All told, it’s an interesting topic, so I wanted to elaborate on it a bit more in a meatier blog post.
Matt’s initial question was the following:
With so many new games being …
Alternate Take – Nier
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 by christianNote: Some folks on Twitter asked me if I was going to write anything about Nier after finishing it. I obliged, as I did find the game very interesting, but I want to point out that the game was already reviewed by Chris back in December. The original review can be found here, and …
Review – Glow Artisan
Thursday, June 30th, 2011 by christianI have been meaning to review Glow Artisan for a very, very long time. Unfortunately, I had trouble sinking my teeth into it after just a couple of days (though those couple of days were, admittedly, fun). Did my struggles signify that it was, in fact, a bad puzzle game? I had to weight all …
Review – Radiant Historia
Friday, May 27th, 2011 by christianRadiant Historia gets so, so close to being a bona fide classic. For three quarters of its length, it was my favorite genre-piece since Demon’s Souls. After that, it segued into its (shockingly) boring, generic final act. The biggest surprise of 2011 became the biggest headscratcher.
Radiant Historia is a classically styled …
iPod Gaming Report
Monday, March 28th, 2011 by christianNow that I have owned an iPod Touch for several months, I figured it was time to come back and report on the iOS gaming experience. The only problem is that there hasn’t been much of an …
2010 Favorites
Thursday, February 17th, 2011 by christianI know, I know, it’s February 2011, and here I am with a 2010 retrospective. The truth is that this has been written and ready a while now, but only now have I remembered to post it. Keep in mind that these are my personal favorite games of 2010. If one of …
