Is Silver Surfer for the NES a bad game? It’s impossible to tell. The game is just too maddeningly difficult to make…
Calum Marsh
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Calum Marsh is a freelance essayist and critic born in Great Britain and based in Toronto. His writings have appeared in such periodicals as The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Esquire, and Playboy.
Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel…
Every December, instead of searching for a group consensus, Gameological looks back at the year in games through…
Players can do a lot of things in Far Cry 4. You can scale a snow-dusted mountain by rope and carabiner. You can…
Now that its politics have been sanitized, its nationalism muzzled, and any hint of radicalism or provocation…
I like the way space looks in Alien: Isolation—the inky blackness of the void outside, the amber starlight spilling…
This edition’s question was inspired by a suggestion from reader Rob W.:
In the summer of 2002, Nintendo released Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, its first M-rated title, and all across…
In gaming’s infancy, stories were largely told by implication. The technology struggled to accommodate superfluous…