All posts by Mat Jones
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Indie Rock: Surgeon Simulator 2013 is Gaming’s Slapstick
I’m neither a doctor nor an athlete. I opted for a career path where I do more...
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Indie Rock: Cart Life and Dys4ia: Empathy Through Reality
There’s a category making a debut at this year’s Independent Games Festival (IGF) awards. The 15th annual...
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Indie Rock: Unravelling CHAOS JAM, a Twine-Only Game Event
Welcome to the first edition of Indie Rock, our new weekly column from Mat Jones that explores...
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A Critical Reading of Killing Is Harmless
Every bit of symbolic criticism, if it goes on long enough, will eventually veer off into prescribing...
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Audio Logs Are Terrible: 4 Better Ways To Tell Stories
Is it not a little weird that in the universes where games take place, aside from whatever...
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Dishonored Review (PC)
Game design has fashions. We see perfectly good mechanics and style fall out of favour only to...
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Hands On Borderlands 2 with Tiny Tina
Guns, yeah? There’s a lot to Borderlands 2. There’s a quest system that provides interesting mission structure...
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Spec Ops: The Line Review (360)
Spec Ops: The Line breaks convention and exceeds all expectation. That’s actually a tragedy, because it’s fantastic...
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Catherine Review (360)
Perhaps it’s fitting that Catherine frames itself as an episode in part of a fictional TV show....
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Quarrel Review (XBLA)
If you own any kind of iOS device, you’re probably fully aware that Quarrel is the ideal...
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Defenders of Ardania Review (iOS)
The Tower Defence genre has gotten a little stagnant. There’s very rarely a great amount of innovation....
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El Shaddai Review (360)
I don’t know much about the Dead Sea Scrolls. As far as I’m aware they’re like the...
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