Adam Meadows

SUPERJUMP Weekly

SEGA Blue Skies

Showcasing SEGA

Opinion

Metal Gear Acid: The Legacy of Shinta Nojiri’s Card-Based Battler

Exploring what makes the card game based on Metal Gear Solid fascinating

Opinion

We’re All Living in the Future of Phantasy Star Online

Where we're going, we don't need roads

Feature

Metal Gear Solid 2: The Original Next-Generation Video Game

Looking back at Kojima’s enigmatic second “Solid” entry

Opinion

The Untold Tragedies of Classic Resident Evil

Its true horror lies at the edge of our imagination, beyond zombies and monsters

Feature

The Walls of Control

The walls of The Oldest House are a veritable pressure cooker, a place of almost unbearable unknowns

Opinion

Micro-Transactions, the Death of Social Storytelling in Games

What are the real costs of lootboxes and microtransactions?

Opinion

With Halo Infinite, Smart Has Become the New Spectacular

Doing Halo better than ever before

Feature

The Bold and the Braveus: A Look Back at Final Fantasy’s Teenage Years

The famous franchise had its share of growing pains

Opinion

When Mass Effect Neutered the Reapers, and We Didn’t Care

Why world-building and narrative supersede inconsistency in the message

Opinion

The Fiction of the Video Game Power Fantasy

The pursuit of power in our gaming lives

Opinion

The Original Video Game Sandbox

Reflections on a time when play experiences were uninterrupted by ubiquitous, invasive connectivity

Feature

TimeSplitters, the Transitional Form of First-Person Shooters

It preserved shooters of the past and could revitalise their future

Opinion

Playing the Games We Love is the Best Way to Save Them

Video game preservation is about more than archiving code

Game Design

Prey Makes Choice Meaningful

Arkane’s “Prey” asks the player to live with the consequences of their decisions

Opinion

The Death of the Private Match

You were a star in the story, not just a cog in some calculated machine

Opinion

Diminishing Halo's Mythology

The desire to explain too much can vanquish the awe and wonder we once felt

Opinion

Pay to Win Makes Some More Equal Than Others

The true technological terror of microtransactions

Opinion

Video Games Have Become the Soundtracks to Our Lives

Digital experiences can leave indelible marks on the story of the self

Opinion

Breath of the Wild is a Meditation on Childhood

Personal, fleeting, magical

Opinion

The Dystopia for Our Times

NieR: Automata’s opening hours are an eerie parallel to our post-virus world