A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Author: Lewis Packwood
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Very good boy 12/10.
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Thunder Lotus has unveiled a ‘cosy management game about dying’.
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Oh my god, I feel SO ninja right now.
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Fingers crossed for more Metroid.
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I spoke to indies about the effect that Google Stadia and its ilk will have on the industry, in an article for GamesRadar+.
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The new mobile game is getting glowing reviews. I can’t work out why people think it’s good.
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I wrote a feature for Kotaku UK on the crushing disappointment of this much-hyped game back in 1994.
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And now I want to move to Norway.
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Image & Form have done it again.
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This new Commandos-alike from Russian devs Alter Games is shaping up brilliantly.
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This Switch WipeOut-alike is frying my mind.
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I spoke with the design director of Lego Star Wars as part of a feature for Kotaku UK.
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But where are all my damn Star Wars games?
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The intriguing mix of survival mechanics and deck building makes Nowhere Prophet one to watch.
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The JoyCons, by contrast, are a bunch of arse.
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Hundreds of games are now released every month, while ‘games as a service’ ask ever more commitment from players. Surely something has to give?
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Ex-Official Nintendo Magazine editor Chris Scullion has done an amazing job cataloguing every NES game.
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This shoot ’em up is an essential purchase if you own a Switch.
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Inkle responds to criticism with a quick-travel option.
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This point and click adventure looks very promising indeed.
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Rockstar mistakes complication for realism.
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Ubisoft’s excellent 2003 cel-shaded shooter is getting the remake treatment in November. Quelle surprise!
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I wrote a feature for Retro Gamer about the Casio Loopy, an utterly fascinating Japan-only 1990s console that was aimed solely at girls.
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Although not without its flaws, Heaven’s Vault proves that archaeology and video games make a compelling mix.
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And from TV programmes, too, not to mention a sort of proto-Internet run by the Post Office. The 80s were crazy times. I wrote about it all in a feature for Wireframe magazine.
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It’s a mix of genetic implant pottery, psychological bartending and a great big dollop of conspiracy theory. Lovely.
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I wrote a couple of chapters and a few other bits and bobs for Convergence, Charlie Fink’s excellent new book about augmented reality.
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London is remarkably different now, one of many sweeping changes to Failbetter’s game.
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Guntastic! Partisans 1941! Afterparty! LUNA! Here’s my pick of the greatest games from this year’s EGX Rezzed.
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Perhaps there’s a reason why Intelligent Systems stopped making Advance Wars in favour of Fire Emblem?
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I’d love to catch up with AMAP readers and other games writers.
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 