Art Tickles
Art Tickles - Emotionally Over Budget
It costs something to be a part of games spaces.
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Opinions
The Unkillable Beast that Lurks Among Us
The crew meets in the cafeteria, tense stares across a large table, with one space in the circle conspicuously empty.
Opinions
Shutter Stroll, Time, and Quarantine
There’s just an ongoing soft breeze, gentle drizzle, and a moment of quiet. Then, you leave, to another island or back to the passage of time.
Opinions
Taking My Feelings for a Ride
The green glow on my arm shows that despite my pax’s erratic movement in the back, I am calm. Though these feelings may not last the ride.
Art Tickles
Art Tickles - Seeking Comfort from the Apocalypse
The post-apocalypse is a strange place to fish for comfort.
Art Tickles
Art Tickles - Sharing Perspective
Games are a great many things, and for both mundane and complex reasons, they are difficult to write about.
Art Tickles
Art Tickles - Untaught Languages
There's a gulf between understanding what a game is meant to evoke, and intuiting what a player experience is like.
MMOGames
Citadel: Forged with Fire Review - Not All Who Explore
Around every corner, there is a new world to see, a new mass to explore.
MMOGames
Astellia Review - A Familiar Experience, Plus Astels
Blood spatters the greenery, shouts of combat rupture the soft whisper of the forest, and the leaves continue their dance.
Art Tickles
Art Tickles - Starting Line Cinematics
An empty, vacant soundscape resolves to the sound of rushing air. The camera starts on a tight angle along the side of an old military plane. It follows the line of an airplane’s body, as though flying in its slipstream. As the camera draws back, the view quickly dips down through the empty space wh
MMOGames
Apex Legends Review - Kinetic Fury Within the Ring
No fewer than 57 warriors will lay broken, beaten, and bloody on the ground by the end. The Apex Legends offer few mercies.
MMOGames
On the Precipice of a New World
The chilly February afternoon in early February hosted a number of writers to preview Amazon Game Studios' New World.