Jeffrey L. Wilson selects his favorite games of 2010.
What does it mean to die in a video game? Very little. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
PlayDead Studios’ puzzle-platformer is a work of art that seeks to destroy you in a most beautiful and creative way.
Limbo, Shank, Fist of the Northstar, and the PSP 2 top my E3 2010 fantasy list.
I thought I lost the footage. After returning from PAX East 2010, I realized that I’d misplaced a memory card that contained footage of Playdead’s Limbo. I sobbed the manliest tears I’d ever sobbed, and chalked up the missing card as being a martyr to the awesome that was the PAX’ debut east coast show. Then I found it!
If you’ve been following the indie Arcade scene for a while, you’ll know that with Braid came a wave of more original games that centred more around thinking than doing. Detached narratives, surreal environments and ambient music became key to formulating the experience you’d have on screen. We interact with the digital world we live [...]
