February 20, 2015 Eric Swain External Sources Haywire Magazine: Games of 2014 February 20, 2015 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: 80 Days, Game of Year, Haywire Magazine, Jazzpunk, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, Unrest Editor in Chief of Haywire Magazine Joe Köller put out the word some time ago that they were doing another roundup of the best games of the year by getting as many critics together to write blurbs for as many games as they could. This year I participated alongside 32 other video game critics. | more
December 21, 2014 Eric Swain External Sources Reviews for October/November/December These are the last few reviews I published at PopMatters for 2014. I do feel I’m getting better at the practice. I really did want to like Gods Will Be Watching. Of course, what person doesn’t want to play a game they won't like. It’s more than that, though. I have a penchant for gravitating towards works of a philosophical bent. Early on we get that the game is about making hard choices in impossible situations and the sacrifices that have to be made. I soldiered through to the end. | more
December 3, 2014 Eric Swain External Sources ‘Unrest’: A Tug of War Between Player Knowledge and Character Knowledge December 3, 2014 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Moving Pixels, PopMatters, Unrest I played and reviewed Unrest, one of the cut paragraphs from that review turned into this post about the dramatic irony Unrest creates in the space between player knowledge and character knowledge. This is an extremely simplified version of the original post. For reasons I’m not going to get into this was post was supposed to be a short replacement piece for this week. | more
