“Not sticking to deadlines is the management’s fuckup, and never the fault of the graphic artists, programmers and others working on the game”. Yup, such deep thoughts, undoubtedly based on years of experience (of reading Kotaku et al, I guess) are expressed these days because of the CDPR’s crunch controversy. …

The most puzzling thing to me in Metro Exodus is how the game ignores it’s a threequel. There is a karma system in the game. Be good, and get a good ending. Be bad, and get a bad ending. Not a very complicated concept. Well, emphasis on concept here, as…

True Detective resonated with me the way no other TV series ever did. Sure, it’s about The Weird, the best intro sequence ever created, that opening song, the Louisiana psychosphere, McConaughey and Harrelson becoming Cohle and Hart, nihilism, Ligotti and and Moore, the occult, serial killers, Alexandra Daddario and ten…

I cannot stop thinking about Bloodborne, and I reckon that any game designer who finished the game feels the same way. It’s not just one of the best games in history but also an insanely inspiring one. It’s not that the game is without faults. The biggest one, but also…

It’s been a year since I wrote anything here, but finally a certain game inspired me enough to jump to the keyboard again. That game is, of course, God of War (2018). Here’s what’s about to happen in this post. There will be no spoilers, but I’ll list five major…

Despite my current fascination with mechanics, emergent gameplay and player freedom, I still try a narrative game — that’s a walking simulator for some of you — every now and then. For me, nothing in the last year was good. But when What Remains of Edith Finch has ended, I…

Good question, but let’s start one floor higher. Some people claim that: Everything is political But here is the problem: if everything is political, then the word loses its meaning, even if we narrow it down to any human activity. …

First I liked Virginia, then it turned to be kind of meh, and then I hated it with the power of a thousand suns. But I still feel bad criticizing it because despite its flaws, it’s a clear labor of love. I know the same can be said about many…

The moment I knew that me and Firewatch were not going to be friends happened very early in the game.