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Category: video games

  • Playing Pragmata

    Playing Pragmata

    Pragmata is Capcom’s sci‑fi adventure set on a fractured lunar research station, where an engineer named Hugh and an android girl, Diana, fight to survive against a rogue AI. Blending atmospheric exploration with high‑tech combat and puzzle‑driven teamwork, the game builds a mysterious, emotional journey about connection, survival, and humanity’s future beyond Earth.

  • Battlefield 6: Fighting for Nostalgic Survival in an Era of Competitive Youth

    Battlefield 6: Fighting for Nostalgic Survival in an Era of Competitive Youth

    I’m old, man. I feel the decrepitude of an aging body in my joints and in the tardiness of my reactions. There’s a perpetual fog that rests over my mind. And yet, I’m a child of an ascendant video game era. Mario captured my imagination. Link made me feel heroic. Master Chief ruled the LAN.…

  • Easter Basket Memories, or That Easter When My Life as a Gamer Was Solidified

    Easter Basket Memories, or That Easter When My Life as a Gamer Was Solidified

    Holidays can serve as memory markers that crystallize moments to stick with you for a lifetime, which is certainly the case for one of my Easters of yore.

  • Backlog BBQ: Until Dawn

    Backlog BBQ: Until Dawn

    Picture this: you are a young adult heading with friends to a secluded mountain, in the dead of winter, to spend what is supposed to be a fun getaway weekend a at a friend’s family cabin. This weekend, however, has some serious I Know What You Did Last Summer vibes.

  • Mario Party is an A-hole (explicit)

    Mario Party is an A-hole (explicit)

    Games are supposed to be fun, whether it is in card, board, or video format. They bring people together in providing a pleasant combination of escape and competition. Sometimes, however, a game will come along draped in the deceit of promising a good time while simultaneously preparing to bring forth great agony with the pain…

  • Backlog BBQ: The Last of Us

    Backlog BBQ: The Last of Us

    If ever a game required a palette cleanser to recover mentally and physically from the experience of play, The Last of Us is that game.

  • Backlog BBQ: Marvel’s Spider-Man

    Backlog BBQ: Marvel’s Spider-Man

    Do you remember your first time? Were you nervous? Excited? Peter Parker was my first…first platinum trophy that is.

  • Backlog BBQ – The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

    A thing happened – I actually finished a game…Something Zelda games always seem to do better than their cohorts is creating a strong sense of immersion…Once again, I was agog like a tourist on their first visit to Disney World.

  • Backlog BBQ: Setting the Flame

    The original Nintendo Entertainment System barreled into my life one Christmas like the Kool-Aid Man. My six-year-old brain was overloaded by the surge of expectant excitement fulfilled. The explosion of ecstasy certainly let my parents know they had nailed their Christmas shopping. Video games have been a staple for me ever since. Growing up, I…