Nic Reuben
Nic Reuben likes to pause games every five minutes to ponder the thematic implications of explosive barrel placement. When he's not having an existential crisis over CAPTCHA verifications that ask him to prove he's not a robot, he's reading sci-fi and fantasy short stories, watching cartoons, and mourning the writing standards in Game of Thrones.
Your Gaming Library Isn’t Complete Without These Dark Souls, Zelda, and...
Sometimes I gaze outside my window and marvel at the incomprehensible beauty of the natural world. Then I think, nope. I've got books to...
Chuchel Review: Cherry Chasing Charmfest
Here's a riddle for you. What do grinning hairballs with orange hats, pink hedgehogs, and giant cherries have in common?
The answer is, of course,...
Dujanah Shows the Cowardice of Gritty Realism
Dujanah slips into a windowless room with purple walls, and a soft piano ballad named “Mothers were all darlings” begins to play.
What of footprints?...
Into the Breach: Building a Better Mech with Subset Games’ Justin...
FTL: Faster Than Light developers Subset Games have created something truly remarkable with Into the Breach; a turn-based strategy that game manages to create divergent, unpredictable...
Decoding Utopian Energy: A Conversation With Manifesto Jam’s Emilie Reed
"Everyone is invited, to write something about how to make a videogame, how to respond to a videogame, what the field of videogames could...
Cheapskate Tuesday: 5 Free Indie Games to Soothe Your Nightmare Existence
Sit down, dear friendo. I would like to take you on a journey. A wonderful journey that will change your life. When arrive at...
Love is Dead, So Try Speed Dating For Ghosts
Speed Dating for Ghosts is a game about finding love, and finding the tender, human idiosyncrasies in stories told to you by grotesque blobs...
In Other Waters: Alien Ocean Exploration
There's a fragile serenity to the opening moments of In Other Waters. Lush ambient electronica announces a swirling, minimalist display of reefs like alien fingerprints....
Adapting Orwell in Animal Farm: The Game
George Orwell's 1945 classic Animal Farm was, the author said, the "first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was...
Digging into Pit People: Early Access Impressions
It's not often I get excited about a menu screen, but gosh darn it; The Behemoth know how to sell you on a game before you've...
More Games Like They Are Billions
If the numbers are anything to go by, it's unlikely players have had their fill of the delicious, fleshy taste of Numantian Games's lurch-away...
IGF 2018 Spotlight: Best Student Game
As a student, some of my favourite games included using ketchup instead of pasta sauce, writing essays based on Wikipedia entries, and losing my...
A Mortician’s Tale: Death a Note Unsaid
Halfway through university, I took a temp job as a catering assistant, and ended up working a wedding. I'd temped as both a waiter...
Murder on the Dance Floor with Felix the Reaper
It's a sobering fact of mortality that death often lurks in the shadows. What's often overlooked, however, is that death is actually a lovesick,...
IGF 2018 Spotlight: Excellence in Audio
Soundtracks, eh? Sound. Tracks. Them old ear ticklers. Those good time, toe tapping, hip jiving noisy noisy sound casseroles. Those hullabaloo rockets that launch...
Cheapskate Monday: 3 Free Indies for the Hell Week Ahead
The satirist Jonathan Swift once remarked that "A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart". Swift died before...