Category: Gaming

Video game backlogs. Lists of games that you’ve purchased but haven’t played. My YouTube recommendations are filled with videos discussing how to manage, organize, and work through them. Entire websites have been created with the purpose of tracking them. There seems to be a considerable amount of people who are buying games, accumulating them, and…

In 2004, Troika Games released Bloodlines, an RPG set in the universe of the tabletop Vampire: The Masquerade games. Bloodlines takes place in a fictitious version of Los Angeles, where vampires secretly walk among humans. Vampire “life” relies on upholding the Masquerade, a set of laws that aim to guard the secrecy of vampiric society…

When was the last time you read a manual for a video game? Perhaps a better question: when was the last time you bought a game that actually came with a manual? It seems like a strange question to ask; after all, what’s the point of having to read a separate piece of documentation when…

Hold on.. online matchmaking? The battle royale “shrinking circle” mechanic? An extraction shooter gameplay loop? And it’s developed by FromSoftware!? Yeah, “weird”; that’s what the Internet said when Elden Ring Nightreign was revealed to be an online roguelite. Nightreign may brandish the Elden Ring title, but the two games are very different. This time, you’re…

There’s a profound sense of home inside the Normandy, your starship throughout the Mass Effect trilogy. A similar feeling is found in Dark Souls II’s Majula, your campsite in Dragon Age: Origins, or, hell, the entire province of Skyrim from The Elder Scrolls V. There’s something special about a player home or hub that makes…

I just finished playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for the first time, and all I can say is: wow. I’ve been gaming a lot in the past year, but I’d never played this massively popular title before. Needless to say, all of the praise it receives is deserved. It’s been ten years since the…