Month: October 2017

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Critical Distance Confab – Minisode 15 – Horror Games Mark II

The latest minisode is up on the Critical Distance Confab. Returning for another horror themed episode is my associate from the Moving Pixels Podcast, Nick Dinicola. I haven’t played a lot of horror games recently, so I went with the one I had played, Stories Untold. It was the game we chose to do for our Halloween episode of the Moving Pixels Podcast, which ended up coming out on the same day. Ironies of irony, given that this is a podcast about highlighting games nobody is talking about, the day prior Campster released a video talking about it. | more

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The Moving Pixels Podcast Tells ‘Stories Untold’

For Halloween this year, we look at the horror text adventure anthology Stories Untold. It’s an interesting game that deserves a lot more people looking at it. Is it good? Well, it’s got a lot of good things in it. Again, we ended up looking at a game that I hope is influential in future titles that pull off what it did, but better. You can also find the first tale of this “anthology” as a standalone title on itch.io. | more

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Critical Distance Confab – PostMesmeric

Alex Carlson, the subject of this month’s interview on the Critical Distance Confab, and his channel PostMesmeric is a relatively new find for me. Because YouTube can only find it in itself to recommend videos I’ve already watched (multiple times) it closes off a lot of what is out there to me. I can’t find new channels and voices because the system does not allow you to know they exist. This is bad enough for channels that have enough subscribers to count as a following, but for small channels like PostMesmeric such treatment is a sentence to toil away in obscurity. | more

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The Moving Pixels Podcast Discovers ‘What Remains of Edith Finch’

This week on the Moving Pixels Podcast, we discuss Giant Sparrow’s sophomore game, What Remains of Edith Finch. This is a long one folks. It always seems the denser video games are the ones we take longer to discuss.  At the time, I felt we kept going around in circles over the central reading of the game, but it didn’t seem that way when listening to it. There is just that much to talk about in What Remains of Edith Finch. | more

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The Moving Pixels Podcast Discusses ‘Tales from the Borderlands Episode 5’

Weeks later, we finally finish up our mini-series of episodes on Telltale’s Tales from the Borderlands. This podcast episode did not go the way I thought it would. See, Nick had steadily become more and more hyped on the game with each passing episode. So, I figured episode 5 would continue our enamored love fest of the game, while trying not to retread all the jokes in it, as with the previous episodes. I did not expect the contentious argument regarding the game’s conclusion that would result. | more