Undertale

It’s an intimidating thing to write about Undertale. That’s an opening line I feel like I’ve used before, and if I have, I regret using it…

Spec Ops: The Line and Hotline Miami

((So this installment of VideoDrone starts with two things I didn’t expect I’d ever write in a…

Why Ikaruga Matters As Art As Never Before

As a brief aside to start off, I think it’s only fair to tell you all that I’m no longer very good at Ikaruga.

There was probably a time where I was passable at Ikaruga, when I’d play at least an hour or two a day, training my…

Sunless Sea

I didn’t really know what I was going to write about Sunless Sea until I lost my second ship to a dumb occurrence close to home. And all of a sudden, I realized I’d write about frustration.

Dark Souls

Hey welcome to a bonus VideoDrone. While a lot of my videogame playing has been filtered into this project (thankfully, actually), I still get time to play stuff just to play it. And so, when I finish these games, if they have any relevance to the project here, I’ll write up a quick account of why.

Art Games on Tour

I went on vacation last week and I was pretty sure I’d have to suspend VideoDrone coverage through til next week, which bummed me out. Luckily I had the bright idea to look into apps on my phone to see if there was anything there that might serve. And lo and behold, I discovered that the Apple…

Dear Esther

Since this is the first of what will hopefully be a series of videogame posts on this blog, I’ll make a short mission statement. Feel free to skip it, after the first break.

Basically I’m writing this for two reasons. One is, I like videogames a lot and I don’t really know what to…

Control Nostalgia

ED NOTE: First published July 27, 2016

So first, an apology: I realize this VideoDrone is very late, and I’m sorry for that. Part of the delay is simply that these two games — particularly Starseed Pilgrim — required a pretty hefty time requirement, and the video…

Bastion

There’s a bit of a built-in problem to Videodrone’s wide focus, but it’s one that I think any videogame analyst is going to face. Namely, you’re going to have to go over already tilled ground. Some games are going to be relatively un-examined — Verreciel from last week was a great example — and most very new…

Anatomy: Portrait of a Home Serial Killer

(Thanks to my friend, @jacquestristan for the suggestion of Anatomy and for the donation of the game itself. Truly an excellent suggestion.

And if you like the work here, please consider donating to my Patreon! It’s at…

868-Hack, Uplink, Hacking, and You

(Hi! Sorry for the lateness of this piece, but I hope it’s worth it. Due to odd screenshot glitches in both games, these are fair-use-esque grabs from GIS; if you’d like them taken down, just contact me and I’ll be happy to.

Democracy Redux

On the off-chance you are some sort of cautionary New Yorker style cartoon or literally the biggest contrarian on the planet, you might know there’s an election tomorrow (or today if you’re reading it later; the election is/was on Tuesday the 8th). The stakes of the election are fairly high in a…

KHOLAT

So, fortunately for you, I won’t be doing the all-caps spelling of KHOLAT all article long. Just for the sake of reference, the game is officially KHOLAT not, as I will be spelling it, Kholat. Cool? Cool.

Kholat is a first person horror game that can’t properly be called a “survival”…