Brief thoughts on Thatgamecompany’s Journey

The simplicity of it, in terms of design, aesthetics, and interaction, is what thrills and excites and holds onto you. You should take this Journey.

Persona 4: The Animation – “You’re Myself, I’m Yourself”

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, was the last game I purchased for the PlayStation2 (I even pre-ordered it), it’s the focus of a chapter in my thesis, and it, perhaps more than Persona 3 (another game I particularly enjoyed), made me very interested in not only other games in the SMT franchise, but in Atlus as a game [...]

Catching Up On…Video Games

I’ve pretty seriously neglected this blog, so I’m going to do a series of “Catching Up On…” posts to discuss and respond to some of the various media I’ve been consuming and my experiences with them. While these posts may be long depending on how many titles I’m discussing, I don’t want to spend too [...]

American History in Graphic Adventure Form

In September, a new video game will launch called Mission US. Produced by THIRTEEN with funding from Public Broadcasting and the NEH, Mission US is intended for school children to engage in lessons of American history through a computer game, taking on the roles of various young people on the edges of major events in [...]

The Big 3 of E3: Labels, Nostalgia, and Keeping Up

E3 2010 has  finished, with the mass convergence of gamers and (more realistically) the gaming press left to go about their lives, debating who has the best press conference (IGN readers are voting with a pie chart), which games are the most new and exciting, and which games they cannot wait to buy and play, [...]