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One of the strangest artifacts of video games as a global medium is that games aren't always developed in the places they're meant to be released. It must be a strange experience developing a game knowing that people in your own country are unlikely to ev

For the last few years, I've been a judge in the annual Independent Games Festival. With judging wrapping up for the year, I wanted to write about some of the games I found interesting this year. In previous years I posted my lists on a social media site

Writing about early CD-ROMs means coming across a lot of early examples of things that became famous later. Sometimes that means finding new and exciting angles on something familiar... and sometimes it means something that's only notable for being early.

When I started this blog, I had ideas about games I wanted to write about-but some of those games, I couldn't write about yet, because neither I nor anyone else had them. Well, after years of searching, I've finally found one. Meet Crosscountry BC.

I've been invited to guest over at the excellent Indie Tsushin, so you can find my latest post over there. I wrote about iTA-Choco Systems's excellently strange Rodem the Wild (Yaken Rodem, 野犬ロデム).

If you were listening to the radio in the 90s, or got a certain flavour of email forward, there's a good chance you've heard the song Jingle Cats. The original novelty single from 1993 is exactly what it sounds like-pitch-bent cat meows set to music to cr

As long as computers have existed, we've had the desire to type funny little symbols into them. Until emoji was standardized globally in the 2010s, though, we really didn't have that many options for typing funny characters-unless you had a computer with

NOTE: The artwork discussed in this article contains explicit nudity and sexual content. Excerpts of the work are depicted for the purpose of commentary.