Alexis Ong

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.

PC Gamer • 27th July 2021

Purple carrots and horrifying toilets were key to making The Forgotten City's ancient Rome believable

How The Forgotten City used food as a springboard for the rest of its society.

The Sixth Axis • 21st July 2021

Happy’s Humble Burger Farm Preview

Flipping burgers isn’t the only horror here…

The Verge • 13th July 2021

How Loki built a different reality with retro hardware

Production designer Kasra Farahani explains the show’s distinct look

Eurogamer • 4th July 2021

Getting physical with Virtual Realms

The exhibition that got stuck in the Suez Canal.

The Verge • 30th June 2021

The future of cinema is a punk-ass Twitch collective

Like so many beautiful internet creations, Racer Trash started off as a joke.

The Indie Game Website • 28th June 2021

Critters for Sale Review

Sonoshee’s 1-bit romp through existential hell is a grainy feast of monochromatic weirdness.

The Correspondent • 28th June 2021

A Counter-Model for Press Freedom

A feature for the Hong Kong chapter of the Foreign Correspondents' Club, which appeared in the July 2021 issue of their print magazine The Correspondent

PC Gamer • 22nd June 2021

Inside the groundbreaking 1997 all-women Quake tournament

On her first trip away from home, in a Burbank, California mall filled with CRT monitors and Quake fans, Lorie Kmiec Harper's mouse broke.