Games & Gaming Culture

Games & Gaming Culture: Easter Eggs

Look closely as TLS attempts to definitively parse out what Easter eggs actually are in videogames, and highlight some of the best (and conversely, worst) instances of them.

Check out What Culture’s video mentioned in this one.

Games & Gaming Culture: NPC/AI Companions

Tag along with TLS as we attempt to parse out what exactly counts as a companion in videogames, and which ones were integrated well, and which ones definitely were not.

Games & Gaming Culture: E3 2019

E3 rolls around for 2019 and TLS dives in once more to cherry-pick items of interest to discuss from it.

Games & Gaming Culture: Bullet Hells

Surrounded on all sides, TLS attempts to navigate another genre definition, as well as the games that may fall under it, this time specifically concerning bullets hells and their variations.

Games & Gaming Culture: Metroidvania

TLS backtracks and upgrades themselves during a discussion on the idea and appeal of Metroidvania style games.

Games & Gaming Culture: Top Games of 2018

We’re back with our picks for the best games of 2018, as well as some not-so-top, a few in-between, and a look at some of the intriguing forthcoming titles of 2019.

A few friends mentioned in this episode: Michelle Iannantuono of Octopunk Media, who we interviewed last year, has recently released a trailer for an upcoming game-based project.

And check out Steevo’s noted wine supplier/reviewer of choice: International Wine Report.

Finally, Scott has a breakdown of the GDC game winners over on Dialogue Tree.

Games & Gaming Culture: Industry Madness Wrap-up

TLS opens this new season of Games Culture with a look back at some of the big, and often bad, noteworthy occurrences from around and within the video gaming industry in the past year.

Bonus Points: Resident Evil 2 Remake Chicanery

A few collected clips and moments (should be spoiler-lite at most, and definitely skill-free) to accompany the dialogue tree article touting the recently released and excellent Resident Evil 2 remake.

Bonus Points: Just Cause-nado (4)

A few minutes, perhaps even amusing and/or entertaining ones at that, of some screwing around with one of the new dynamic nature elements in Just Cause 4. It’s basically the Michael Bay of videogames, but kinda better.