Roy Graham
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The sequel to Sunless Sea is very much on the way
Less than four hours after its Kickstarter launch, the sequel to Failbetter Games’ dying-at-sea simulator Sunless Sea reached its funding goal of $126,635 (a simpler number, 100,000, in British pounds). Now, one day later, they’ve raised $215,942, achieving every stretch goal but the last. If things continue this way, Failbetter is going to need to come up with a few more. The sequel to Sunless… → Read More
A closer look at the clunky bots and boxy spaceships of The Signal From Tölva
Do you remember Sir, You Are Being Hunted for its breathtaking art and scenic landscapes? Or do you remember mostly harrowing chases through the moors as bemonacled automatons try to skin you for sport? We covered the studio’s newest game The Signal From Tölva last December, focusing on the stunning landscapes of the titular planet. Now, thanks to a video posted by the art team, we’ve gotten a… → Read More
Meet my new friends: the 10,000 rats of Vermintide
Rat slaughter has never been so intimate. → Read More
How to become a professional Overwatch player over summer break
“I’ve got Graviton,” mentions Eli “Elkiea” Gallagher over his headset. He and his teammates, the McRightclicks, are scrimming with another professional Overwatch team, Elevate. Gallagher, playing as the Russian strongwoman Zarya, has been bombing Elevate with lobbed explosives from his particle cannon all game, and now he’s done enough damage to fully charge his ultimate. … Continued → Read More
An ode to Reinhardt, tortured scion of a broken land
Berlin, 1945. Spring has sprung, drawing a bitterly cold winter across Europe to a close. Like a stockyard’s hammer, Stalin’s Red Army has struck crippling blow after crippling blow to the Wehrmacht, and now sits outside the gates of Germany’s capital city. Concerted bombing by Allied forces has already reduced Berlin to ruins. In what remains of their homes, the men and women tremble, certain… → Read More
Total War: Warhammer, you pronounce it Waaagh
There was never a question of which faction I would be playing for my first run of Total War: Warhammer. The Vampire Counts were fun to dabble with, but their brand of corrupt-and-conquer worked a little too slowly for my tastes. The Dwarves, despite being the only race to master the helicopter while most of their neighbors are still working on crossbow technology, were too homogeneous for my… → Read More
The simple pleasure of tossing bottles and listening to sea shells in virtual reality
Virtual reality is absolutely everywhere at GDC this year. On the expo floor, a man strapped at the waist to a treadmill-like device runs in place. At the lunch tables, a woman’s jaw drops as she e… → Read More
Chambara aims to capture the tension of samurai films
Esteban Fajardo and his team have been devouring samurai films while crafting their competitive action game Chambara. They were particularly drawn to the work of Akira Kurosawa, the renowned Japane… → Read More
What happens to the young, retired stars of esports?
When Dennis “Thresh” Fong was growing up, there was no such thing as a ‘professional gamer’. He was sixteen when he started playing DOOM (1993), but wasn’t competing for anything other … → Read More
Videogame to explore the possible causes of the Jonestown massacre
In The Church in the Darkness, you play a man looking for his nephew outside the borders of his own country. The lad has gone to a commune or cult in South America called the Collective Justice Mis… → Read More
Does eSports Have a Drug Problem?
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. In the aftermath of one professional player’s admission to using Adderall, the Electronic Sports League (ESL) is cracking down on performan… → Read More
LARPing for Social Good: The Power of Live Action Role Play
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. Fantasy entertainment once considered only for children has evolved into a social tool for diversity. LARPing inspires empathy and understa… → Read More
The Outsider Art of Dominions 4
In 1947, French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet coined the term art brut, or “raw art” when translated to English. It was used to describe, by his own definition, “Those works created from solit… → Read More
The Flame in the Flood’s post-disaster journey begins on February 24th
Boy, videogames sure do want out of the narrow, crate-filled corridors of their youth, nowadays! First-person hiking simulator Firewatch has been receiving critical praise all week, in no small par… → Read More
The aliens in Somerville definitely don’t come in peace
“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the American Indians.” That q… → Read More
Dangerous Golf wields destruction as a middle finger to the rich
Golf is the sport for people with far too much time and money. The average length of one round is 4 hours; the average golf course is so large, there’s a particular vehicle designed to carry you ac… → Read More
Prepare to feed elastic bodies to the stylish Necropolis on March 17th
Last time we mentioned Necropolis, the gawp-worthy dungeon crawler wasn’t much more than a few entrancing gifs and a promise to sate our unending thirst for procedurally generated, spooky fantasy. … → Read More
Head into the dark with debut footage of Sunless Sea’s first expansion
“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human recklessness.” These are the words that Sunless Sea, the game of nautical exploration and cannibalistic mutiny, … → Read More
Waiting in the Sky recreates a universal childhood experience
I don’t remember many of the places I was taken to between the ages of two to 10, but there is a sort of coalesced impression I have of the many backseats windows I saw the world through. That wind… → Read More
Grimes’ new music video is the epic finale to a sublime YA trilogy
The wait is finally over, Grimes fans—Kill V. Maim, the epic final chapter in the Art Angels trilogy, is finally here. And, boy, does Claire Boucher deliver. (A fair warning—the following contains … → Read More