Gary KingsHalf Life Alyx: A Game Uninterested in Friction.VR has been available to us for several years now, but 2020 could quite fairly be described as the year VR finally “arrived”. Between the…Jan 1, 2021Jan 1, 2021
Gary KingsTony Hawk’s 1+2: Remakes As More Than NostalgiaI’ve never been much of a nostalgic person. I often revisit old games, but out of curiosity rather than reminiscence. It allows me to look…Sep 19, 2020Sep 19, 2020
Gary KingsSeeing Stars: Why the Resident Evil 3 Remake is Precisely The Game It Needs To BeIt’s nearly impossible to talk about the new Resident Evil 3 remake without talking about the 1999 original, but that’s exactly what I’ll…Apr 30, 2020Apr 30, 2020
Gary KingsDOOM 3: Why We Had To Make Aliens So We Could Finally Stop Making AliensMy good friend Sam Greer once told me that Aliens is the most influential movie in gaming history. Everything from atmosphere to dialogue…Mar 12, 2020Mar 12, 2020
Gary KingsBig Weird: Control (The Game), Death Stranding (The Game), and Control (The Concept)With 2019 coming to a close, we’re about to see a lot of people (myself included) attempt to wrap up both the year and the decade with…Dec 6, 20191Dec 6, 20191
Gary KingsTread Carefully: Death Stranding and walking in games.A few weeks ago, I was replaying The Last of Us, and while I had a pretty good time with it, I did have a few criticisms that didn’t occur…Nov 12, 2019Nov 12, 2019
Gary Kings2000:1: A Space Felony and Designing Space Mysteries.This is a piece I wrote last year as part of Greg Buchanan’s Newsletter. That month’s theme was about setting stories in space, and you…Nov 5, 2019Nov 5, 2019
Gary KingsDeath and Taxes: Why John Wick Hex is Perfect and also Boring.In February of 2019, I proposed a question to Twitter:Oct 9, 2019Oct 9, 2019
