Gaming’s Most Ridiculous Tropes and Traditions

For an entertainment medium that is constantly keeping up with advances in technology, video games are so bizarrely mired in convention and tradition that they make the Amish look progressive by comparison. Just for fun here’s a critique of some of the more common gaming tropes and traditions.

How Video Games Are Made

Video games! We all love talking about them, criticising them, defending them, and threatening the very lives of people that make them. Heck, occasionally we even love playing them. But have you ever wondered how they are actually made?

Why We Need to Get Rid of Traditional Levelling Systems in Video Games

Last weekend I was playing Shadow of Mordor as often as a piece of scenery collapses under Nathan Drake’s weight.

This weekend I am playing Shadow of Mordor as often as Kratos wins humanitarian awards.

The problem? Well apart from wasting several hours coming up with those opening lines, the game just got too damn easy.