The GameShadow Blog

On Thursday I’ll be posting this week’s feature. It’s talking about games as art, and linking to some great little indie developments (all free downloads) that are pushing the boundaries. It’s called ‘Free Indie Games – Games as Art: The Evidence’. It would just be called ‘Games as Art: The Evidence’, but if you don’t [...]

It’s been my great pleasure to recently launch the new Save Game interview segment here at GameShadow. The segment is something of an interactive answer to Desert Island Discs. Each interviewee (we’ve got a huge variety of names lined up, both from high up in game development, and other industries) is tasked with selecting which [...]

I’ve long been fascinated with the movement in interactive entertainment towards ‘procedual worlds’ – game worlds, like GTA’s, that function in of themselves, and where player involvement and motivation is largely through the world itself. That’s what I’m talking about in this week’s Insight. There’s also a simply gorgeous, free zombie game – I think [...]

I was watching an episode of “The Shield” last night. The ever-colourful dirty cop Vic Mackey was doing his usual thing; busting bad guys with excessive force , pocketing kick-backs, wrecking his marriage and getting into hot water with his superiors, when I suddenly realised… you know what, this would make a really, really great game. And that got [...]

Are you sick to death of playing games on your PC? Of course you not, after all you’re not insane or anything? Are you? Having said that, maybe like a guilty schoolboy outside an adult bookstore, you’ve been recently tempted by one of the other spanky looking game machines winking suggestively at you from the shelves? Shame on you, Gameshadow can’t possibly [...]

I had a lot of fun writing this feature. If you’ve been keeping up with the blog, you’ll know I’m not the greatest fan of the likes of ERSB and BBFC (incidentally, Hillary Clinton’s been bitching about the two of them recently, which is nice to see), but I try hard to keep it under [...]

As video games have grown, so has the array of emotions they can produce. While still rare, it’s no longer unheard of for interactive entertainment to be thought-provoking, sombre, or distressing. Which is itself distressing, given the ethical flack gaming receives in the press. In the wake of Armistice Day, I wanted to ask whether [...]

The buyer’s guide is up, covering all the big name games this winter, along with a few you may not have heard of. Crysis and Viva Pinata are the headlining acts. This year, we’re embracing what it is to be a gamer of all kinds, so next door to Gears of War you’ll find the [...]

I like games. Games like clichés. I like clichés. Not quite true, but close enough. This week’s feature is a collection of gaming’s best loved mechanics and foibles, designed to keep you on the ball. There’s some things that just hold true, no matter what game you’re playing. Which is the one you love to [...]

Is it bad to shamefully capitalise on a calendar event by using it as an excuse to talk about Milla Jovovich? Is Halloween the time of year when being bad is actually kind of OK? Is the horror film dead and buried? Find out here.