Balth reviews Ubisoft Montreal’s playable storybook/poem, Child of Light. Available on PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC for $14.99 as a digital download. Watch the video review here: Read below for the written r...
The term Japanese Role-Playing Game (JRPG) is useful shorthand for a certain way of character-led storytelling and combat mechanisms. But there are times when it’s tempting to recognize such rubric as restrictive and embrace ga...
As I write this, turkey is trying to burst out of my stomach, the Jets are embarrassing themselves on national television, and I’m using Persona 4 to distract me from the pain of both. Thanksgiving is great. So in the spi...
When discussing the state of contemporary Japanese RPGs, people are split into two primary schools of thought. Some gamers think the genre has persevered, that JRPGs haven’t gotten worse, but that the once-core audience that fe...
Website CollegeHumor has a section called Works Sucks. It’s a place where the downtrodden and downbeat can swap stories, comparing how awful their jobs are and hopefully finding solace in the fact their shitty job isnR...
Ungh. Yes, I know this game uses a hand-drawn style, and, yes, I know there’s only a few seconds of gameplay, but damn. Jump to the 1:40 mark to see what I’m talking about. More » Originally written and p...