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- Introducing ‘Kiso Valley Diary’ – A Blog About Life in Japan March 4, 2020
- Life in Japan #3: 13 Reasons Why You Should Learn Kanji July 29, 2019
- Life in Japan #2: Thoughts on Studying Kanji, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Needlessly Complicated Japanese Logographic Writing System July 22, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #10: Vampyr (Part Ten – Vampire Rats) July 21, 2019
- Life in Japan #1: Spending Time With the In-laws July 13, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #9: Vampyr (Part Nine – Whoso Eateth My Flesh) July 9, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #8: Vampyr (Part Eight – Funeral Bites) June 30, 2019
- Is the Indie Game Development Scene ‘Stagnant’? (and other questions whose answer is ‘No’) June 7, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #7: Vampyr (Part Seven – Redmail in Redchapel) May 26, 2019
- One Thousand And One Nights: A Patreon Reward Game May 23, 2019
Author Archives: Nick Keirle
Videogames and Impermanence
On the 31st of May the servers for Demon’s Souls, the seminal roleplaying game developed by From Software, will be shut down for good. As a primarily single-player game it’ll still be playable after that date, but the online features of the game will … Continue reading
The Games of 2011 – ‘From Dust’
Once, as a young child bored on a cold, grey beach on the barely-acceptable coast of southern England, I saw a tiny stream of water flowing from a tide pool back into the sea. Armed with just a bucket and … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Chahi, From Dust, Games of 2011, Review, Ubisoft Montpellier
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The Games of 2011: ‘Dead Space 2’
In Dead Space engineer Isaac Clarke found himself trapped on the USG Ishimura, an interstellar mining ship designed to rip apart whole planets for the vast resources within. The inhabitants of the ship had mostly been turned into gruesome monsters, and Isaac had … Continue reading
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