Category Archives: Symposium

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 →

One of the earliest pieces of “serious” games criticism that I can remember reading on the internet was a sprawl of text from Tim Rogers about Earthbound, a role-playing game released for the Super Nintendo in 1995. Pinballing wildly from … Continue reading →

For our May Symposium, we’ll be talking about The Last Guardian.  I imagine we’ll spend a fair amount of time comparing the game with Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, but I’m particularly interested in talking about Trico, comparing them … Continue reading →