This week on Spiffing Reads, it’s all sex and VR. So a bit like the Brosnan-starring The Lawnmower Man, […]
Game Design
Video game designers have taught us, through intricately designed HUDs throwing all manner of information at the player […]
Like Animal Crossing before it, Nintendogs well and truly worked its way into my daily routine, evoking a […]
Games that spend so much time encouraging the player to do so little are always walking that fine […]
On Burnout Paradise – how Criterion Games’ opus perfected the art of letting players pissfart around
With the way people talk about open world ‘sandbox’ games, you’d think the designers had taken the afternoon […]
In the very early days of video games they were primarily aimed at teaching the player how to […]
Having played video games from a very early age, it was inevitable that they’d somehow influence the person […]
You sit there in a dark corner of an otherwise lit courtyard. There are three armed men, vigilant […]
There have been so many dissertations written about the Super Mario series of games, with everything from the […]
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