Category: Culture Commentary

I’ve talked before about the preservation of physical printed media for the gaming industry and how important it was to ensure that such artifacts of a bygone generation are kept to not lose sight of […] Read More

From my recent experience in Inkshade I’ve found that lighting levels can have a huge impact on not only how a game plays but generally how it feels. This is no revelation, as horror games […] Read More

Vidoe game lore can be utterly facinating stuff. Some of it can be straightforward, some can be complicated, and some can be so obscure that fans can spend years speculating over it and coming up […] Read More

For those reading this that may be of an older generation like me you may remember desktop pets, they were a cute wee addition for older desktop backgrounds that acted as a way to keep […] Read More

Something that modern gaming has allowed us to do is giving us the ability to update games remotely over time, allowing for the creation of the MMO and the ‘Live Service’ game, for better or […] Read More

As many of you will know I am a huge fan of liminal spaces, artistic representations of surreal environments that mix nostalgia, horror and a strange form of serenity. These types of things fascinate me, […] Read More

If you’ve ever been interested in my book, The Vile Art of Necromancy, and the creative/design process of the title in question then I’d recommend listening to the podcast above hosted on the channel of […] Read More

After gaining a love for playing as the Raider character in Elden Ring: Nightreign I’ve come to gain an appreciation for the ‘Hero’ archetype of character. The type of big muscley warrior who fights with […] Read More

I have returned from my break to find that… Dial-up is being discontinued by AOL? Oh no! To be fair, it’s estimated that it only exists for people in the low thousands, so it makes […] Read More

I’m shamelessly copying this conversation I had with people on Discord about a fun video I watched about Morrowind. Enjoy! So I found out one of the funniest things to do with Morrowind recently. I […] Read More