The first episode of ARCADE SOUL, where I do my very weak Anthony Burch as the Rev impression and talk about Galaga, Passage, and the mechanics of love. Clocks in under four minutes, even if I spent an entire day doing it. Check it out i...

Below is a preview of my Natural Selection 2 review, the full thing can be found over at PixelJudge. Additionally, it also marks one of the first hurdles the site has faced. We recently had a colleague leave quite suddenly. There was dr...

There are no clean escapes in Hotline Miami. There is nothing clean at all about Dennotan’s vision of Miami, in fact. Even through the typically detached, low resolution, top down perspective, it contains some of the most gruesome depict...

“How far are you going to take me?” my girlfriend asks, brushing her blond hair to the side as the wind whips it back. I give no answer, but turn my eyes back to the road, its asphalt arteries flowing to the vanishing point of my vision. I’...

I've recently been doing some writing over at PixelJudge, a startup videogames site dedicated to PC games. We don't currently have a lot of content up, but we've got a staff full of varying tastes and opinions, and an interesting review fo...

It’s all surface level. With most people it’s as far as my connection goes. Ironically, it’s even more of problem with many people who self-identify as “gamers”. Oftentimes these are people who easily spend enough time playing games to be ...

Music is the pulse of the soul. Music is the beat of your actions. Music is what drives the curves and straights of the track, the force that becomes the heart and identity of what makes a racer. Every driving game I’ve ever loved can be i...

“- everyone is seeking for maximum feedback.” During an interview with Eurogamer, Jenova Chen, the mind behind the fl0w, fl0wer and Journey had this to say about players. During an early prototype of his cooperative game Journey, players w...

The Red Ship. Familiar to those who’ve played Galaga as the form a player ship takes when captured by an enemy. At one point I entertained the thought of getting this as a wrist tattoo. In some moments, I still do. At the time, my girlfr...

I am lying to you. At this very moment I am being untruthful. It’s a fundamental truth of our society that we only show certain sides of ourselves to each other. At times we engage in a complicit lie, pretending to care about one another ...

Persona 3 is about character. In my final days I lost the will to climb Tartarus. I knew I was strong enough to take on what was to come. Instead, I spent my days spending time with friends I hadn’t had the time to fully develop my relatio...

Persona 3 is complete. Just this month I wrapped up the final chapter of Persona 3 Portable. In the time I’ve been playing it I’ve gone through at least three different PSP units (including one PSV) and multiple copies, both UMD and digita...

hey. ashen siegarettes here (hehe). I'd be an aspiring writer, lover of games, and artist. I occasionally make games as well, but those aight great and I haven't made some in a while. Nevertheless, I'll be posting here on such things, th...