Tag Archives: video games

On Timesplitters 2

Posted on 11/13/2014 by kunzelman

A little while ago I wrote about Timesplitters, the Playstation heir to the design minds and concepts that delivered the ultimate party game of the end of history (the 1990s), Goldeneye. Now, based on some voting from my Patreon users, I’m taking you … Continue reading →

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Destiny’s Raid Is Interesting Because It Is A Game

Posted on 10/22/2014 by kunzelman

I was reading this phenomenal (really, just great) interview that Kirk Hamilton did with Luke Smith, a designer on Destiny‘s Vault of Glass raid, and I was struck by the following questions and answers: It’s funny, there are fourteen unique ways … Continue reading →

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My Fascination With Weedopia

Posted on 10/16/2014 by kunzelman

Weedopia is a RPG Maker game from Gaming Roach Entertainment that they are currently attempting to kickstart for six thousand Canadian dollars. It does not appear that they are going to make it, but I’m fascinated by the idea that someone … Continue reading →

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On The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo

Posted on 10/15/2014 by kunzelman

There was a time when the specter of the uncle who worked at Nintendo haunted every recess period in the United States. I first heard him in the pickup spot where parents would pick up their kids after school. The … Continue reading →

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I Was Given A Wristband That Says “Synergy Motherfucker” And These Are My Thoughts

Posted on 10/09/2014 by kunzelman

View this post on Instagram A post shared by CMRNKNZLMN (@cmrnknzlmn) 1. I was watching someone play a game called Lichdom Battlemage and some form of PR person handed me that wristband. I didn’t look at it until I had walked … Continue reading →

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Ten Minutes in Gamer Culture

Posted on 09/04/2014 by kunzelman

[Content warning: This post contains slurs of all sorts quoted from a match of Call of Duty that I played. They are shocking and awful.] I start hearing him in my first match of the evening. I’m playing Ghosts, I get the … Continue reading →

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Paul Virilio on the origins of interactivity

Posted on 09/03/2014 by kunzelman

INTERACTIVITY was actually born in the nineteenth century — with the telegraph, certainly, but also and especially with clinical electricity, which involved planting electrodes on the faces of the human guinea pigs used in such ‘medical art’ as practised by … Continue reading →

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A conversation about concerns in videogame journalism

Posted on 09/02/2014 by kunzelman

This is a Storify I made of a conversation I had with a #gamersgate advocate. There’s a lot to parse about the “controversy” that has been going on, but the short timeline of facts is this: Zoe Quinn’s ex-boyfriend makes … Continue reading →

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The Beauty of Team Fortress 2

Posted on 08/28/2014 by kunzelman
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Raphael Sfeir’s “Other Side”

Posted on 08/26/2014 by kunzelman

Other Side starts with two beings floating away from the player character, and after they’ve ascended, the player walks until she finds a set of stones. The stones light up, deliver tones, but very little else. The player wanders until she … Continue reading →

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