Minecraft: The Best Example of Games As Art

The brilliance of Portal 2’s multiplayer is not in the way it expands Portal’s dynamics by incorporating an additional player and an extra pair of portals to play with, but rather how it’s designed for and around the more organic qualities of the basic multiplayer experience. For example, even though the game requires intense communication,…

Review: Minecraft: Story Mode — Episode 5: Order Up!

Yet Nintendo ignores it, just as they have ignored pleas from their own fans regarding everything from addressing many of the issues already noted, to making their own historically great back catalog more readily available. Yes they’ve done things like release Earthbound on the Wii U, but only after years and years of remaining silent…

Best Multiplayer Games Like Don’t Starve Together

Let me begin by saying that this episode is particularly short, like a little over an hour short. I guess that’s what happens when the first two episodes are only separated by a few weeks, but the fact that to get the entire experience you have to play through it twice sort of pans out…

In the Next Generation of Video Games, Indies are the New Exclusives

Now Minecraft has no overarching objective, so it instantly challenges McGonigal’s claim that a goal is required in a game. But actually, Minecraft Collectibles ’s main goal is composed of multiple smaller goals. It doesn’t have a «grand» objective, but it has smaller objectives, little bite-size incentives that replace each other over time and take…