Celeste is out to prove video games can be hard without being jerks about it
This review contains minor plot details from Celeste.
How Ghosts ’N Goblins helped video games find comedy in failure
Failure is comedy’s natural ecosystem. There’s a primordial delight in watching something, and especially someone, fall down. It’s even better if it happens again. Hell, make someone fall over so many times that it stops being funny and then comes back around to being funny again, and you have the potential for some…
It’s time for the extra life to die
Wisdom teeth used to be pretty useful. Back in the good old days of human development, our ancestors apparently had bigger jaws and more teeth to help with chewing raw plants. As our dietary needs changed alongside our growth as a species, folks just didn’t need a third set of molars for grinding up greens. Yet all…
What game would you speedrun?
This week’s question comes from Gameological’s own assistant editor, Matt Gerardi: Speedrunners dedicate themselves to not just playing but decimating games, working with and competing against other similarly minded speed demons to find the fastest route through their chosen specialties. The runs they produce are…
