Never has a first-party game been more honest and self-aware about its circumstances than Segagaga. A coda to the Dreamcast's troubled life released a few short months after Sega announced its withdrawal as a platform maker, Segagaga morbid…
A couple of days ago, Eurogamer's main English branch published its two-star review of ARC Raiders, a piece where freelancer Rick Lane dinged the game hard for its embrace of AI-generated voice acting. It's a score that stands in stark cont…
We meet again! Long time, no post, eh? I know this blog has been pretty quiet since I initially launched it late last year. It really was my plan to post a little more frequently to it, but between work happenings and just... y'know, The St…
This post originally ran on Cohost on 2024/10/1 and is being reuploaded here for future posterity. The content has been lightly edited for enhanced readability. As the final piece I ran there prior to the site's shutdown, this is also the l…
This ask originally ran on Cohost on 2024/4/14 and is being reuploaded here for future posterity. While I've decided not to bring over the majority of my asks since they were mainly casual posts, I'm making an exception for this one given t…
This post originally ran on Cohost on 2023/8/8 and is being reuploaded here for future posterity. The content has been lightly edited for enhanced readability. I think it's fair to say that even in a post-Breath of the Wild world, for almos…
This post originally ran on Cohost on 2023/2/21 and is being reuploaded here for future posterity. The content has been lightly edited for enhanced readability. You'd think that after recently obtaining some vintage, bona fide bangers like
Would you look at that? It's an original, brand spanking new post from yours truly and it's got nothing to do with housekeeping around here! Yes, it's true, I remembered that blogs are sometimes place where people actually talk about new th…
This post originally ran on Cohost on 2024/5/3 and is being reuploaded here for future posterity. The content has been lightly edited for enhanced readability. There's something to this game. For all the faults I'm about to list about why i…
This post originally ran on Cohost on 2023/7/31 and is being reuploaded here for future posterity. The content has been lightly edited for enhanced readability. This was a question that I used to get asked on Twitter with some frequency. Se…
I'm still in the process of porting over my Cohost posts onto here, which I'm trying to do at a cadence of around a post per weekday, at least when I'm not swamped with work. I'll hopefully have the next such post up by tomorrow, but today
This post originally ran on Cohost on 2022/7/30 and is being reuploaded here for future posterity. The content has been lightly edited for enhanced readability. In my last post breaking down what makes a game a dating sim by Japanese defini…