Yakuza 0: Dragons, neon lights, and lives on hold
When Toshihiro Nagoshi conceived Yakuza in the mid 2000s Sega was no longer the flamboyant empire it had been when it reigned among the great console manufacturers. The company was searching for…
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Game of Faune : 3D Monster Maze, the most revolutionary of the dinosaurs ?
Hello everyone and welcome to Game of Faune. This monthly column will aim to talk to you about both video games and animals. Whether they are main characters or minor characters, friends,…
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Death Stranding 2, the serenity and vertigo of a Kojima at twilight
It is rare for a video game designer to become the embodiment of an idea and a way of doing things. Hideo Kojima has done just that. From the release of Metal…
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Sam Barlow’s Fragments of Truth
Like a film director, Sam Barlow manipulates the codes of video games to explore new forms of storytelling. He is notably the creator of a trilogy of atypical games, Her Story (2015),…
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Gamification: Playing at work and vice versa
Scoring is a concept well known to gamers. This number, which we want to increase, is as old as video games themselves. As far back as the Magnavox Odyssey, arguably the first…
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Democratia: NoFantazio
This article reviews the entire Metaphor: ReFantazio game. It is therefore advisable to have completed the game before reading it. To avoid confusion and distinguish him from the historical figure, I will…
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D-REX or the diagnostic mutation of our time
A critical and personal review of Jurassic World: Renaissance and the monster as a cultural symptom. Like many children, I was fascinated by paleontology—although my interest focused more on ancient and aquatic…
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The golden age of survival horror : myth or reality ? (Part 1)
Before we begin, it’s important to note that it’s always difficult to speak of the history of a genre, whatever the medium, with any certainty. On the one hand, there are the…
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Home sweet home – The imaginary house
“I, Herbert S. Sinclair, of the Mount Holly Estate at Reddington, do publish and declare this instrument my last will and testament…… I give and bequeath to my grandnephew, Simon P. Jones,…
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Dread Delusion : Lo-Fi RPG
Sometimes all it takes is a single image to make you want a project more than you should. What we see speaks to us or intrigues us in particular, and that’s the…
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