Has qualifications in English and hopes to complete a degree in the sector one day. Wrote as a volunteer contributor at the online outlet Xbox Nerds. With almost 20 years of experience playing video ...

Platformers helped define video games as a medium. They taught generations how to hold a controller, how to time a jump, and how to explore imaginative worlds built around movement and discovery. Few ...

Chris is a writer with an academic background in Creative Technology and Games Design. This experience has allowed him to look at games through a critical lens, analyzing what makes for good design.

Big Hops is a 3D platform game about a frog, but it’s also a 3D platform game about 3D platform games.

When Metroidvanias and platformers place players into hostile environments, we often also get means to defend ourselves or fight back. Animal Well involves a different approach. We’re dumped into a ...

3D platforming has had a bit of a boom period over the past decade thanks to games like Super Mario Odyssey bringing interest back into them as a AAA-level game, while titles like A Hat in Time and ...

The game’s platforming felt more punishing that it should have been, but I was cleverly rewarded for my initial misery. The game’s platforming felt more punishing that it should have been, but I was ...

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I am not a Pokemon purist by any means. Spinoffs, side projects, manga… No matter the medium, there's no one way to engage with the franchise that's more right than others, despite the series' gaming ...

Donkey Kong Bananza deviates from the series’ past by offering a new gameplay experience, allowing players to destroy anything in sight. Players have the freedom to smash through any object they see, ...