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The popularity of esports, or competitive video gaming, has been growing since the early 2000’s. Around 2010, game developers started actively designing toward a professional esports subculture. The National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE) formed in 2016, and since then,…
A remake of the 1994 game UFO: Enemy Unknown/X-COM: UFO Defense , X-COM: Enemy Unknown took critics and fans by storm, receiving over 20 awards at E3 2012. With a smart mix of action and strategy, it restarted the heartbeat…
Today will be a break from the usual formula of this column. As this will be the last Siskiyou gaming article for the school year, I thought that I’d talk a little bit about what we’ve seen so far this…
As I’ve mentioned in past articles, there are several forces increasing the sophistication of video games. “Extra Credits” is creating awareness of it. “Extra Credits” is a web series written by game designer James Portnow and animated by Daniel Floyd…
Ordinarily I cover lesser-known indie games in this column, but “League of Legends” has become too big of a presence in my leisure time to ignore discussing it here. League of Legends (lovingly referred to as “LoL”) is a multiplayer…
Ben Kane is an indie developer that’s recently garnered a lot of attention with his newest title, “DLC Quest”, winner of Xbox’s Indie Game of 2011 (Despite being very popular on the Xbox, “DLC Quest” has only recently come to…
If Quentin Tarantino made a video game, that video game would probably look something like “Chivalry”. Within fifteen minutes of playing “Chivalry” you will be decapitated, disembowel a knight, watch a man clutch the stump of his severed arm, and…
For those of you not familiar with the industry, indie games are independently developed video games. Instead of being produced by a big-budget studio, indie games are developed and fully funded by a small group of friends with a passion…
Whilst gaming my way across the World Wide Web, I have experienced some of the most offbeat and wonderful gems that the indie community has to offer. Travelling and studying abroad has introduced me to gaming studios and websites I…
When it comes to indie gaming, there is less of a focus on expensive graphics engines and gleaming eye-candy because the indie community is way past that. Game play and story have reemerged as priorities to those of us who…