Alexis Ong

Barclays • 29th November 2021

New year, new National Videogame Museum

We catch up with director of visitor experience Hannah Bryan to find out how the museum has regained momentum after long periods of closure.

The Sixth Axis • 23rd November 2021

Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View Review

Looking out the Rear Window.

The Indie Game Website • 15th November 2021

Bloodshore Review

It’s a rare bird that makes a mark on a largely forgettable genre that’s often associated with camp.

PC Gamer • 14th November 2021

The PMS Clan blazed a trail for women in competitive gaming

Twin sisters Amy Brady and Amber Dalton founded PMS Clan in 2002—now one of the oldest competitive gaming organizations in the world.

Tor • 11th November 2021

Book Review: Cixin Liu's The Wandering Earth

Cixin Liu is an ideas guy—a Big Ideas guy.

PC Gamer • 6th November 2021

Before blockchain and NFTs, there was the real-cash MMO Entropia Universe

For almost 20 years, Entropia players have been grinding, gambling, and selling virtual real estate to earn real dollars.

The Verge • 5th November 2021

The Dune movie flushed away a chance to talk about wastewater

Stillsuits reclaim more than just sweat and tears

PC Gamer • 31st October 2021

Kick ass for the Lord in retro shooter Forgive Me Father

Right now in Early Access you can only play Forgive Me Father as a gun-toting priest, but the finished game should also give you the option to play as a journalist.

Tor • 27th October 2021

Book Review: Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson

There’s nothing I love more than a good locked-room murder mystery, an eternally beloved subgenre of crime writing that embodies humanity’s dogged need to know.

The Verge • 27th October 2021

This company is making digital humans to serve the metaverse

NPCs for the virtual world of the future.

The Indie Game Website • 20th October 2021

The Good Life Review

Going into The Good Life, I knew little to nothing about the game save that it came from the mind of Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro (Deadly Premonition, D4, The Last Blade).

The Indie Game Website • 11th October 2021

Dap Review

With their debut title Dap, Melting Parrot has given me a neurotic new pastime: trying to stay cool in the midst of intense, sinister weirdness.

Barclays • 9th October 2021

Investing in the Metaverse

With more companies and capital funds pouring money into those at the forefront of this concept, we explore why the metaverse has everyone so excited.

The Indie Game Website • 22nd September 2021

Eastward Review

By now, you’ve probably heard that Eastward, the new action-adventure from Pixpil Studio in Shanghai, follows in the hallowed steps of The Legend of Zelda and cult game EarthBound (aka Mother 2).

The Sixth Axis • 9th September 2021

Dream Cycle Preview

While minding her own business in an arcane library, magic apprentice Morgan Carter is rudely ripped from her physical form by her sinister ancestor, Randolph Carter.

PC Gamer • 30th August 2021

6 games I took vacations in this summer

When things were "normal," before the pandemic, I was fortunate enough to travel several times a year.

The Indie Game Website • 27th August 2021

Hoa Review

One of the most anticipated indies from the 2021 Wholesome Direct stream, Hoa is a pastoral vision of tranquil forest scenery and sweet anthropomorphic animals.

The Indie Game Website • 19th August 2021

June: Tales from Cyberspace is a story set in a fictional metaverse

Children of Cyberspace are having a baby—a precocious young being named June—and they’d very much like you to raise her.

PC Gamer • 2nd August 2021

Mothmen and Shark Riders: the mind-melting fantasy of pixel-pulps

The indie duo behind pixel-pulps are making visual novel throwbacks to the wild fantasy of Conan the Barbarian.

Tor • 29th July 2021

Book Review: Strange Beasts of China

As a diaspora Chinese reader, plumbing the depths of Yan Ge’s Strange Beasts of China, translated to English by Jeremy Tiang, is at once warmly familiar and exhilaratingly alien.