In the weeks leading up to PAX West 2024, I checked through the list on the PAX’s website to investigate every single booth that would be there, to determine which to reach out to (provided they don’t reach out to…

Nathan Fouts, the founder and lead developer of Mommy’s Best Games, has been making games for a long time. After cutting his teeth with Insomniac Games — working on titles like Postal 2 and several Ratchet & Clank games —…

It’s a fact of life, you can’t please everybody. It’s also a fact that the job of the critic is easier than the job of the artist. Well, I’m a critic, and I wasn’t very pleased with Dread Delusion. In…

After playing OMUT in a hotel suite off-site from PAX, one could say that I was tense. That game’s oppressive palette, brutal difficulty, and grim, folkloric inspirations all combined to leave me — while excited — also a bit exhausted.…

PAX is always filled with horror titles. Something about the indie scene that PAX fosters draws in the kind of creative minds that feel the pull to create something like oneway.exe or Mouthwashing. It’s glorious. But, at times, it can…

Ever since Jacob Geller’s phenomenal video, “Gross Games about Flesh and Stuff,” I’ve been kept up with Wrong Organ, the developers of cult-hit How Fish is Made. And so, I noticed when How Fish is Made got a free expansion,…

At PAX West 2024, I had the pleasure of visiting Serenity Forge’s Booth. While each game there is special (I’ve said it before: Serenity Forge doesn’t miss), one really caught my eye: Keylocker, developed by Moonana. I’d played the demo…