Over the course of this past summer, I played through the entirety of 2017’s Assassin’s Creed Origins. It’s an excellent game—mechanically satisfying, with a solid story and gorgeous views of Ptolemaic Egypt (I’ve easily spent several hours in photo mode alone). But by far one of the best parts of Origins is its protagonist, Bayek of Siwa, who defies a lot of conventional ideals about how men should be portrayed in media. The result is, put simply, just a really good character.
Read MoreBeer Pong? Nope! Try Cup Pong! Battleship? Nope! Try Battle Boats. The oddities of Game Pigeon’s widgets never failed to amuse me. I had tried to get into it freshman year when some boys in my dorm were addicted to “Word Games,” but it was Stef who got me hooked.
Read More“I wanted to make a simulator of the game that asked the question, What if the cheerleaders were the players rather than the football players? “
Read More“One of the big moments I realized is I thought I was making a game about, you know, you pursuing a relationship across the stars […] I realized I was creating a game about pursuing myself as like, yeah, as this career oriented person who nonetheless had a deep emphasis on the people in their lives and wanted to help them understand why this happened…“
Read MoreThe VGA Print collection has some classic heavy hitters and some hidden gems. While as a collective we love all our prints equally, as individuals we do play favorites.
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