Gaming On the Fringe: Tachyons
Welcome back to Gaming On the Fringe. In two previous articles we've looked at ways of skirting the lightspeed barrier to allow "effective" faster than light (FTL) travel. What this means is that technically th...
No Man’s Good Game
What “is” No Man’s Sky?
I ask this question because nearly every defense I’ve read of the game, from errant Youtube comments to early pundit analyses, contains some variation on the statement, “I enjoyed No ...
Gaming on the Fringe: Warp Drives
Welcome back to Gaming on the Fringe. I had a lot of fun describing the faster-than-light (FTL) mechanism in Mass Effect in the inaugural article in this series, so I thought I'd take a look at other FTL drive...
Does Good Robot Deserve Its Title?
Good Robot was co-developed by Shamus Young, best known for his work at the Escapist Magazine (Stolen Pixels and the recently ended Experienced Points) and his own personal website, Twenty Sided. I’ve been a re...
The Cruelty of Tharsis
There’s a not so fine line between really hard games that are fun and really hard games that are not fun.
The key to making a punishing game enjoyable is to repeatedly evoke that horribly stinging gut feelin...
Call of Duty: Milton Ops or Why Call of Duty Proves The Market Works
"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the f...