Art Tickles – A Sort of Platypus
Written for Haywire Magazine. It seems like hardly three or four months can go by in gaming circles without the conversation about games writers playing poorly coming up, and despite […]
Category Archives: Portfolio
Collected professional works.
“Gamers” Are Still Dead, Y’all
Written for Escapist Magazine, recreated with permission. Although gaming is alive and well, the basement-dwelling Mountain Dew goblin teenager stereotype who screams at his mother for “interrupting” his boob-modded Call […]
Art Tickles – Preserved
Written for Haywire Magazine. The world ended 210 years ago. Tensions between the world powers in the early 2000s had reached a fever pitch, and the World of Tomorrow was […]
Art Tickles – Defined by Their Exceptions
Written for Haywire Magazine. I genuinely and firmly believe that David Cage missed his dream of becoming a film director. With his studio Quantic Dream, he has seemingly spent as […]
Art Tickles – Boxing Ourselves In
Written for Haywire Magazine. As the walls tighten, tensions soar, and pretty soon several will die—the situation feels inevitable. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (henceforth PlUnkBat) is a game about both physical and […]
Need for Speed Most Wanted (2012) Review
Written for Excessive Handholding. Somewhere around 80 miles an hour, the engine redlines, a gear shifts, and my control becomes figurative at best. At these speeds, my frantic hurlings at […]
Art Tickles – Passive Entertainment
Written for Haywire Magazine. I enjoy the falling action as much as I enjoy the climax. No matter how huge the set pieces or dramatic the final battle, I’ll always […]
Ghost in the Shell Review — A Shell of What’s Beneath
Written for XPGain, recreated with permission. Among the more difficult things to realize in life is that change is slow, and accepting things that deviate from expectations isn’t always a […]
Art Tickles – Dashboards and Darkness
Written for Haywire Magazine. At various times in my life, I find myself alone in my car, with long expanses of road ahead of and behind me. Many of these […]
Art Tickles – I Need You, and I Hate You for It
Written for Haywire Magazine. Regardless of what game I am playing, I am a coin teetering on its edge. If it topples one way, I am a powergaming weasel, buried […]