Oxenfree – A Hidden Steam Gem
Oxenfree can best be described as a low budget combination of Until Dawn and Firewatch with a touch of Life is Strange. It’s like Until Dawn in that it’s about a bunch of ostensibly friendly teenagers with deep...
How Telltale Took on Game of Thrones and Why it Mattered
Someday Telltale Games should have a movie made about it. In 2010, the unknown developer of Back to the Future and Jurassic Park spin-off games you’ve never heard of celebrated $10 million of annual revenue as ...
The Success of Graphic Adventures and the Necessity of Choice Illusion – Part 2
In Part 1 I discussed the success of recent graphic adventure games despite the genre being in its infancy. In Part 2, I’ll look at some of the challenges graphic adventure games have, and will continue to face...
The Success of Graphic Adventures and the Necessity of Choice Illusion – Part 1
Over the last month I’ve played through The Walking Dead Seasons 1 and 2, Life is Strange, and Until Dawn, and in the past I have also played Indigo Prophecy, Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and The Wolf Among U...