Author Archives: David Carlton

This month’s Symposium will be on Yakuza 0.  It’s a game with an unusually detailed setting (and, even more unusually, a series with a persistently detailed setting!); I’d like to talk about how that setting drags the game’s center of … Continue reading →

This month’s Symposium will be on the game Inside.  Pat will be leading the discussion; here’s some thoughts from him to kick us off: Playdead’s INSIDE is a platformer/horror game that tells a story without a single word of dialogue.  … Continue reading →