Oliver Shellding
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Never before has so much been told in so few words.
Edmund McMillen has stolen weeks of my life, and I have let him. From the PC to my ill fated times on 3DS and iOS, and now my almost daily driver of the Switch, I have continued to play The Binding of Isaac for more than a decade, and I’m...
Sometimes, I wonder if people would have better lives if we just let nostalgia remain nostalgia. We, as a species, love to wax poetic on the good old days, on how things used to feel and taste and smell. Some of it is fairly relevant: I haven’t seen an actual...
Now that I have your attention, I’d like to speak with you about Pokémon.
Ya’ll, PopCap is dead and they’re not coming back. The maker of beloved puzzle games was absorbed by EA a while ago, and the franchises that we played to avoid doing work back in high school and college now no longer exist. It’s why we have things like Bejeweled Stars...
Simon the Sorcerer: The Search for More Money.
The resurgence of the beat-em-up in the last few years is so damn refreshing for adolescent me. Even though the graphics, techniques and boss difficulties have improved a lot since Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, there’s still the core idea of raging on a group of baddies (or...
When I spoke with Baiyon last summer at BitSummit about his upcoming game, Dreams of Another, my takeaway was one of fascination and confusion. While he had explained the concept well – and my hands on with the demo gave me a general idea – the execution of it all...
Gambling is one of those things where I can’t tell if there actually is skill beyond a handful of games or if it’s just luck and wealth manifest. Oh sure, there are people who used to walk away from the casinos with hundreds of thousands in their pockets, but how...
Candy Rangers
When you hear “on rails shooter,” there are a number of great titles that come to mind, putting you back in the shoes of Agent G for House of the Dead 2, or flying through the skies of Panzer Dragoon. It’s a fantastically wide genre that gives a bit for...
