Category: Games

Screenshot from gamepressure I really like the new Thief. Perhaps if I’d played the original 1998 game, I’d have found more to disappoint me. But most of the negativity seems to focus on 1) big glitches and bugs (which I luckily didn’t encounter too many of) and 2) the story being a mess — which… Continue reading Thief and the power of solitude

This book right here is one of the best I’ve ever read about videogames. And I’ve read a whole bunch of them. It’s such a tightly-written, enthusiastic, motivating manifesto, it only takes about two chapters before you’re eye-buggingly pumped full of revolutionary energy and optimism about the future of videogames. Anna “Dys4ia” Anthropy’s simple but excellent… Continue reading Anna Anthropy’s ‘Rise of the Videogame Zinesters’ is pretty awesome