Video Games
Before the time when everyone had access to gaming PCs and consoles, there were arcades. These gaming hubs were the ideal hangout spots for kids and teens alike, who found comfort in the long line of colorful machines and endless fun. As technology evolved, so did the video game industry,...
Leakers are no strangers to online communities, but in the online video game community, there has been a thriving community that has grown in the past few years. For many online creators and reporters, leakers have been a major help in speculation and other information gathering for the community, despite...
Horse racing, especially in Japan, is a very popular sport, with the sport garnering a large audience, high betting turnover and strong cultural relevance would lead to many media being produced around it. “Umamusume: Pretty Derby,” is one such game, with the base premise being that of personified race horses....
Over a few weeks, there has been a lot of discussion over the consumer movement known as “Stop Killing Games”. Ross Scott, the founder of the initiative, has already gone through many hurdles with this movement, and there are plenty more to overcome in the future. However, the main problem...
“Subnautica,” is one of the most popular indie survival horror games ever made and with the announcement for a sequel and its trailer dropping last year, many fans have been waiting with baited breath for early access to become available to the public. However, with Krafton acquiring Unknown Worlds Entertainment...
The gaming industry is in a very controversial position now, with the growing concerns of the high-ranking publishing companies becoming greedier than ever before. Increasing prices and dubious ownership have made video games more of a hobby that only some people can afford. However, with the recent announcement about Borderlands...
In the sprawling digital landscapes of games like “Cyberpunk 2077” and “Grand Theft Auto Online” (GTA Online), players are promised freedom — limitless cities, endless choices and the illusion of autonomy. But beneath the neon lights and high-octane missions lies a familiar grind: the fetch quest. These repetitive, low-stakes tasks...
When “The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind” launched in 2002, it welcomed players into a fantasy land free from the burdens of reality — where one could explore uncharted lands without schedules, fees or a to-do list mimicking a 9-to-5. Two decades later, open-world games are no longer radical departures from...
The video game “Hytale,” that has been in production for ten years and received high amounts of anticipation when announced, has recently been confirmed to have cancelled development after a full decade of work with a recent announcement from Hypixel studios, on their official website, stating that “we’re ending development...
The iconic horror franchise “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” received its next installment in the game “Five Nights at Freddy’s: Secret of the Mimic,” having been released on June 13, 2025. The new title has received a mixed bag of feedback from fans. The game follows the player as they are...
Speculative evolution can be defined as a science-fiction subgenre and an artistic movement that considers hypothetical and scientific creativity to bring about fictional organisms with an entirely imagined evolutionary history. There are many pieces of successful media that contain elements of speculative evolution such as C.M. Kösemen’s book “All Tommorrows,”...
Caramel Column Inc. is a Japanese indie game development company led by Maki Ono and is well known for some of its indie titles such as “Insectarium Alternative March,” a game about investigating strange creatures called Urbanites and “Aznana,” a game about a boy and a disconnected head named Aznana...
