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Recovery and the Three JRs

Posted by JR Ralls –
Three people are about to undergo the same type of surgery. Each one of them will receive a general anesthesia, and strangers they’ve never met will move sharp pieces of metal up into their noses to cut out as many troublesome polyps as is possible without punctuating their brain sacs. These three people have to prepare for the longest absence from work that they have ever taken.

Hatoful Boyfriend

Posted by Julian "rabbit" Murdoch –
My crane wife arrived at my door in the moonlight. All star-bright and tongue-tied, I took her in. We were married and bells rang sweet for our wedding, And our bedding was ready when we fell in.- Decemberists, "The Crane Wife, Part 2" I’m not entirely sure Hato Moa exists. I’ve spent months exchanging enormously pleasant and charming emails with her about the thing she is most famous fo
The Quest for Adventure

The Quest for Adventure

Posted by Chris "C" Cesarano –
When I was a child, I went hiking and found a lake. It was quite a surprise for me to stumble upon it.
Heads or Tails

Heads or Tails

Posted by Chris "C" Cesarano –
CAUTION: This article will contain spoilerific discussion of Bioshock: Infinite and Virtue's Last Reward. Yesterday, I was Booker DeWitt. I found myself shuttled into the sky to a wonderfully happy and colorful land called Columbia. It's a nearly Utopian world filled with smiling faces and friendly strangers. Some peculiar ones, too.

XCOM: Enemy Within

Posted by Sean "Elysium" Sands –
XCOM: Enemy Within is an expansion to last year’s excellent XCOM: Enemy Unknown, bringing the usual bevy of features one associates with a competent expansion. There are new story beats, new units, new technology, new maps, new resources, new weapons, and on and on.
Steamworld Dig

Diggin' Deep

Posted by Chris "C" Cesarano –
It must be around 1 a.m. when I finally snap the lid shut on my 3DS. I snuff out the colorful collection of light beaming from the LED screen, and the room goes dark. I don't know what had brought on the collection of heavy, stressful, and worried thoughts to my mind that night. All I know is that I had chosen instead to grab my 3DS, pop the lid, and start chipping away at dirt and rock.

Rocksmith 2014

Posted by Sean "Elysium" Sands –
Music is a vital and integral part of my life. It connects for me to something deep, primitive and fundamental. Anything I am doing is improved with a soundtrack. A perfectly built chord progression can and has brought tears to my eyes or a laugh to my throat.
Assault on the Control Room

Skip to the End

Posted by Chris "C" Cesarano –
"Are you ready?" my brother asks. I switch out to my sniper rifle, hitting the reload button just in case. Not that I have to. Each time I slay an enemy I reflexively reload, as if it were some part of a ritual for the dead.

Nilin

Posted by Chris "C" Cesarano –
I do not regret spending $60 on Remember Me. I enjoyed the combat, puzzles and world design enough that I look forward to diving in a second time. I also do not regret supporting Dontnod, the game's development studio, which believed a female protagonist of color could carry a game.
Game of Dwarves

A Game Of Dwarves

Posted by Erik "wordsmythe" Hanson –
There's a lot going on — too much, and not enough time. It's not an uncommon situation in my life, and it's the sort of situation that makes it difficult for me to play video games as often as I might like. It's also the sort of situation that makes certain games especially appealing.

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