Most moral choice systems suck. What's wrong with them, and what would make them better?
Reloading a save to undo the consequences of your decisions breaks the implicit narrative contract between game and player.
I, along with many of you (I imagine), have sunk endless hours into XCOM: Enemy Unknown since its release, desperately trying save the world from an ever intensifying alien invasion. And, as much as I try and stay true to …
The most important thing about a video game’s control scheme is not the controls themselves, it’s the player's relationship to them. If people don't understand how to play a title, they will never get far enough to care.
Upon its …
The music in the Mass Effect trilogy backs some of the most epic, poignant, and beautiful moments in recent gaming memory. Anyone whose played it will not soon forget the soaring strings and strident trumpets which helped make each game's …
There is a problem in videogame marketing today. This problem is Dante's Inferno. This problem is that one Dead Space 2 commercial. This problem is booth babes. This problem is that a significant portion of game marketing is not …
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