One thing I love to do in games is fly. If a game has a flight mechanic, you just know I’ll spend a lot of time aimlessly, joyously soaring across the sky. I did this in Tearaway Unfolded, with its paper planes. I did this in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, with its …
Today, Comics Alliance shared an exclusive preview of Jem and the Holograms #7. I wasn’t expecting it, and just when I was feeling wistful (it’s been a whole week since #6 dropped), Kelly Thompson shared a link on Twitter. I was there as quickly as I could right click and hit “open in …
[URIS id=664] Gallery: The beautiful papercraft world of Tearaway Unfolded Depending on where you live, Tearaway Unfolded is either already available, or will be very soon. It’s a very good, very beautiful game from Media Molecule, the studio behind LittleBigPlanet and the original Tearaway for PS Vita. Between the PS4 screenshot function and the in-game …
Last week, on Force Friday, Disney unveiled the BB-8 Droid by Sphero- a miniature, fully-functional, radio-controlled robot based on a droid of the same name from the upcoming film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s described as being “as authentic as it is advanced”, capable of acting independently as well as …
[URIS id=644] Gallery: LEGO Star Wars Microfighters I finally got around to building the LEGO Star Wars Microfighters AT-AT that I picked up a few months ago when I was in LA (LEGO is so much cheaper in the US than in New Zealand). Like the rest of the series, …
I have a lot of great comics on my pull list at the moment, but few have me quite as enamoured as Jem and the Holograms by Kelly Thompson and Sophie Campbell. Usually, I’m content to wait however many weeks it takes for my orders to arrive in New Zealand, and with …
On paper, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture should be a game that’s exactly up my alley. I like exploration games, I like experimental games, I like games with a strong focus on narrative and worldbuilding. Rapture is all of these things, and yet I found it frustrating and, ultimately, unrewarding. The main …
Spoiler warning: This whole article is about a major spoiler for Dragon Quest III. As if the title didn’t give that away. Fake endings aren’t exactly a rarity in video games, or any narrative for medium. This is particularly true of RPGs, where “surprise! here’s the real final boss” is such a worn-out trope …
Content warning: this post includes discussion and personal accounts of domestic violence. Talking about domestic violence is difficult. Even in 2015, there’s a pervasive attitude that the affairs of the home are just that, and have no right to be discussed in public. And when they are, it’s so often with an individualistic attitude – …
After starting a semi-regular feature about comics I’m reading last week in Now Reading, doing something similar for my other go-to pastime – video games – was probably inevitable. Introducing… Now Playing, a quick look at some of the games I’ve been playing lately. Most of my free time over …
