In 2010 my friend was talking up this stuff called trance music and why it was so rad. At the time I was only half-listening, lost in whatever melodrama was eating my boring 18-year old soul at the time. But then that friend mentioned this new release having electric guitars…

Batman: The Enemy Within (The Telltale Series) is a game about Batman. You can imagine what’s in store. You fight criminals. You go undercover among criminals. You even potentially…perform crimes? You throw batarangs. You wear a cape. You pick brooding dialogue choices. You have a butler named Alfred. You’ve seen…

In 2020 I played through about 20–25 games from start to finish. Some were new, some were old, some I didn’t finish, some I did. Some I had played many times, some I had never played before. But in the year involving large amounts of time trying to avoid going…

Definition of LONGING Longing definition is - a strong desire especially for something unattainable : craving. How to use longing in a…www.merriam-webster.com People who read my writings on Medium but don’t know me in real life may not know that I’m a physical medium fan. As a 28-year old, I’m considered a millennial, but I grew up around computers and had earlier access in my life to the capacity to store, backup…

Last week I finally got around to playing and finishing Remedy’s 2019 third person action-shooter game Control. It’s a wild and weird one that I liked a lot. The game tells an odd story about Jesse Faden, a young woman searching for answers about the disappearance of her brother Dylan…

YouTuber and Twitch streamer Woolie recently finished his long and thorough let’s play of one of my five favorite games: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords (aka: Kotor 2). It’s a rather tragic video game in which Obsidian began its reputation for being the studio getting short…

So the fantastic ARG/YouTube series “hiimmarymary” appears to be approaching a content update for the year if Twitter is any indication (and it may be the last). For those that need an introduction, hiimmarymary is an absolute knock-out horror ARG/found footage series that’s been ongoing since mid-2016. While its film…

WARNING: WE ARE SPOILING HALF-LIFE: ALYX VERY SHORTLY AFTER THE G-MAN PICTURE BELOW. If you want a spoiler-free conversation about what makes Half-Life: Alyx really really good but also hamstrung by its own medium, try reading part 1. And if you can, maybe try playing Half-Life: Alyx. If not, maybe…

This is a spoiler free article. Part 2 will not be. I promise. I was working on a lengthy discussion of Metro Exodus’s failings in the weeks leading up to March 13th, the date my country federally declared a national pandemic on its hands. But then that happened and everyone’s…