Our games editor, Jake Muncy, has been playing Far Cry 4 since it came out on Tuesday and is eager to share his thoughts. A full review or analysis, however, is a ways away—this game is frickin’ twenty- to forty-hours long and our boy has a day job. In the meantime, here are some reflections […]
Broken Unity: Let’s Talk Assassin’s Creed and Review Embargoes
My initial plan for this week was to purchase Assassin’s Creed: Unity and write up some impressions for my weekly Loser City thing. We’re a pretty small operation here, and it can be hard to get review copies of games when you’re a small operation, so if I’m really interested in a major release I […]
You’ve Got Trench Foot, Charlie Brown! or: Why Valiant Hearts Just Didn’t Do It For Me
Remember This is America, Charlie Brown? The cartoon where the Peanuts gang informed us about the Mayflower while also unmistakably being the Peanuts gang? It’s a solid teaching tactic, the core of edutainment: give us a familiar narrative juxtaposed with real historical events, and in the process teach us something while still entertaining us. Kids love […]
Fake Empire: Watch Dogs and Surveillance Culture
Reviewed on PS4 Warning: Minor Spoilers May Follow The CIA has a Twitter now. This made me squirm as soon as I heard it. I mean, we all know the government can follow us on Twitter whenever it wants to. But now it wants to actually follow us on Twitter? It feels like power projection, a […]