Pixelatron

I surprised myself by enjoying Bungie's Destiny Beta more and more as I dived deeper into it. I started to "get" MMOs for probably the first time, in fact. I've often looked on furrow-browed at people who apparently enjoy spending a full evening shaving i

I booked tickets to the Digital Revolution exhibition at The Barbican Centre before I knew they had this in the first room: towering multiscreen audiovisual retrogame amazingness. If I had known, I'd have brought a camera with better focus control. The ex

Basically, not enough. There were at least 20 games at Bar Scenario on Monday night as part of Indie Launch Party: Summer '14, all diffused in a pleasantly chilled atmosphere generated by 200-odd happy gamers. Yet my ageing brain and fingers managed to on

I've been wanting to write something about Explorer for a long time. The more that contemplative exploration games like Proteus, Dear Esther and Fract become an established thing, the more interesting this little (read: absolutely gigantic) 1986 game seem

I bet "outside the level" glitches in games are already being done to death by a thousand Tumblr feeds. But they always fascinate me. The video below is from a bug that happened to me during an Online Tailing mission in Watch_Dogs. Aiden's stuck undergrou

Screenshot from gamepressure I really like the new Thief. Perhaps if I'd played the original 1998 game, I'd have found more to disappoint me. But most of the negativity seems to focus on 1) big glitches and bugs (which I luckily didn't encounter too many

This book right here is one of the best I've ever read about videogames. And I've read a whole bunch of them. It's such a tightly-written, enthusiastic, motivating manifesto, it only takes about two chapters before you're eye-buggingly pumped full of revo