Lost in Useless Territory

This is my favorite memory from playing Fallout: New Vegas: I was wondering the desert fairly early on in the game and came upon a small camp held by Cesar’s Legion. There were maybe half a dozen soldiers and two slaves, men taken from a town in the South the Legion had raised, and I [...]

While My Guitar Gently Clicks

Last week publisher/destroyer of worlds Activision announced they were discontinuing the Guitar Hero franchise. It’s a strange thing to hear, though not a particularly surprising one – Activision’s way of handling a successful game is to glut the market with as much of it as possible, and in the few years since original developer Harmonix [...]

Games I Want to Make, pt. 1

- A simultaneous turn-based game pitting two players against each other and the game itself. Each turn, players must prepare to manipulate the game’s input against each other without leaving themselves open to harm from either their opponent or the impartial game. – A game where your environment is made up almost entirely of loose [...]

Trials HD and Trying Again

I love the simplicity of the controls in Trials HD. One button makes the bike go, one button makes it stop, and slight taps to the left stick makes the little guy lean forward or back on his bike. It’s everything you need to get through the game’s many stunt tracks, from the earliest “this [...]