Category: Game Reviews
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ARGs are Bad
I wrote this whole essay out as a rant on Discord. But it’s a rant among the category of rants I rant a lot, so after some discussion, I decided also I would post this as an essay. It’s a little unstructured, and stream-of-consciousness, because it’s a rant, but I made a little bit of…
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Fragments: Design for Mixed Reality
Anyone who knows me knows how extremely excited I was for the HoloLens, the Mixed Reality device being developed by Microsoft. When I saw the live demonstrations of the device, I knew I had to have it. All that being said, as excited as I was about the HoloLens, I was excited about it for…
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Affordances in High Fidelity Environments or Why I Liked Tomb Raider Better Than Uncharted
I wrote a review of Rise of the Tomb Raider for Tap-Repeatedly.com. In the process, I went back and read my Uncharted review. I played Uncharted really late, and I actually didn’t much like the first Uncharted when I played it. On the other hand, I liked the Tomb Raider reboot and its sequel quite…
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A Review of the Characters in Mortal Kombat X (Pt 4 – Final)
We’re getting to the end of my Mortal Kombat character list, and here I’ll cover all the characters I missed in previous installments! This one is kind of picture-heavy since I talk a bit more about visual choices, so keep that in mind when you click the link.
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A Review of the Characters in Mortal Kombat X (Pt 3)
In this entry, I have a lot to say about Kotal Kahn. Then a few characters I have less to say about!
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A Review of the Characters in Mortal Kombat X (Pt 2 – Mostly Ninjas)
This article discussing ninjas in Mortal Kombat will contain some mild spoilers as pertains to ninjas in the story of Mortal Kombat. But before I even talk about ninjas, I’m going to talk about Kenshi!
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A Review of the Characters in Mortal Kombat X, in No Particular Order (pt 1)
By request, I’m going to start by talking about Cassie Cage. Below the jump!
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Now Playing: Mortal Kombat X
I was already interested in trying Mortal Kombat X, because it had been a little while since I bought a Mortal Kombat game. I was pushed over into the “immediate purchase” category by a tweet from Javy Gwaltney saying he’d like to see what a woman thought of the game. Specifically, he was asking about the…
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Currently Playing – Ori and the Blind Forest
I had a weekend set aside to relax, so I spent some of it playing Ori and the Blind Forest on Xbox One. I first saw the game at the ID@Xbox showcase at GDC, and then it was available just a few days later, so I took the plunge. It’s super pretty but super hard, like…
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The Value of Game Critique and Reviews
At MAGfest I was lucky enough to be on several panels as part of the MAGES wing of the conference! You can see the panel I headed up about Game Critique and Reviews, here now on this video on YouTube! Joining me are Chris Totten, Luke Peterschmidt, and Bobby Schweizer. It’s hard to see the slides (which…