October 31, 2014 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Horror Games, Non Play Criticism, Philosophy It is a truism in video game circles of serious thinkers that video games are a young […]
Ghouls, Ghosts and Gaming
As has become a staple of the Moving Pixels podcast, we try to do something special for Halloween week by checking out horror games. This time we looked to two free […]
NPC – Non Play Criticism: The Dictionary, The End All Be All of Meaning?
It is a truism in video game circles of serious thinkers that video games are a young medium and that we are forging new territory with our criticism. That is […]
NPC – Non Play Criticism: Defining “Arthouse”
It is a truism in video game circles of serious thinkers that video games are a young medium and that we are forging new territory with our criticism. That is […]
Virulent, Vociferous and Vocal
(Excuse this entire article. I wrote this a few weeks ago when I needed to do so. This ended up as my version of stream of consciousness writing and given how I […]
‘Spec Ops: The Line’ Denies the Player the Pleasure of Play
All of us at PopMatters finally got around to playing Spec Ops: The Line several weeks ago and I just got around to writing about it now. Coming to a game late […]
Hardboiled Hijinks
The summer doldrums ticked away and so we went back to talk about an indie game from 2013: Gunpoint. As we found there was little to grab onto with regards of […]
NPC – Non Play Criticism: Women in Clothes
It is a truism in video game circles of serious thinkers that video games are a young medium and that we are forging new territory with our criticism. That is […]
My Downward Spiral with ‘Watch Dogs’
I’m finally back to writing my weekly posts on PopMatters, coming back with one that had been holding me back almost since I stopped writing. This was originally supposed to be a […]