This is my last column for the Middlebury Campus, so I decided to write something a little bit different than my usual game review. With the arrival of the new console generation, the recent surge of independent game releases, and the ongoing debates about games as an artistic medium, I figured that ...
I had tracked the dragon all the way to the outskirts of the Volcano, and now it was time for our final showdown. Sulfurous fumes blew into my eyes, and the heat of the air made me grateful for the Cool Drinks I had brought in my pack. I shifted my grip on my Gunlance, checking it for ammunition. Breathing ...
In 2013, Harebrained Schemes kickstarted Shadowrun: Returns, their first title. Billed as a successor to the classic SNES game, Shadowrun Returns offered up two main options for players: they could create their own content using the built-in story editor, or they could play the campaigns released by ...
I don’t like real-time strategy games very much. Turn-based ones like Fire Emblem occasionally entertain me, but for the most part I prefer to play games where you only control one character, or maybe a small group. As such, Banished is not the kind of game I would usually consider playing. As a top-down ...
The past few years have been a rotten time for local multiplayer video games. Big name franchises have been shifting focus to online multiplayer, sometimes dropping their local multiplayer altogether. Last year, when I popped open my brand new copy of SSX for the PS3, I found that EA had decided not ...
Both the Playstation 4 and the Xbox One made their debuts earlier this holiday season, ushering in the next generation of video game consoles. With each company vying for early supremacy and gamers around the world chomping at the bit for information on the two new machines, I did what any responsible ...
Here in the last third of the semester, we all find ourselves a little crunched for time. As much as I would like to play a bunch of long games, I just don’t have the time what with all of my final papers and, as I explained two weeks ago, Pokémon. This kind of environment is where smaller indie ...
“So, are you a boy or a girl?” Moments after being asked this question by a suave man in a lab coat, I was tossed out into Kalos to begin my adventure in Pokémon X. I picked my starter, a Froakie (obviously), and soon found myself giggling like a kid again as I tromped through the world, capturing ...
I inch forward along the dungeon floor, my spear clutched tightly in my hands. Brilliantly colored foliage on either side of me, I occasionally pause to jot a note down on the crude map I have with me. I hear a rustling in the underbrush. There are monsters about. The rustling grows louder, I hear a ...
I knew Grand Theft Auto (GTA) V had hooked me when, minutes after putting the game down for the first time, I began referring to people as “homie.” The game takes place in a fictionalized version of Los Angeles called Los Santos, and it is hard to imagine a more perfect setting. The reality of ...