The strange mechanical poetry of Bionic Bay
In Bionic Bay, the player takes on the role of a lone scientist exploring the vastness of a ruined biomechanical world. Their tiny figure stands atop the twisted remains of a titanic…
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Monster Hunter Wilds: The retention loop
Human beings have never acted without a purpose. Even for the most basic actions such as eating, sleeping and reproducing, we feel a sense of pleasure. The search for this pleasurable sensation…
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Red Dead Redemption 2, the ruins of a world
October 26, 2018, Rockstar Games celebrates the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, its most recent game to date. Five long years separate this new production, led by the Houser brothers, from…
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – A Canvas of Fading Lives
There are games you see coming from miles away. The ones that, backed by a vast arsenal of financial and structural support, promise from the very start a grand, unforgettable adventure. And…
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Do video games belong in museums?
While the presence of video games in museums is not a particularly recent phenomenon, it has undeniably intensified in recent years to the point where the very idea of exhibiting video games…
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The remains of the future by Simon Stålenhag
It is difficult to tackle the work of an artist like Simon Stålenhag. I have always been fascinated by his work, since the release of his first book Tales from the Loop,…
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Fatal Frame: when we become the directors of our own fears
Why are we afraid when we play a horror game? What is it that inspires that strange but delightful feeling of terror? A simple jumpscare at the corner of a corridor? The…
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Frank and Drake : A Successful Gothic and Modern Reinterpretation?
I’ve always loved works – video games, novels, series – that dare to re-adapt the great classics. I make no secret of my love for American McGee’s Alice and Alice: Madness Returns,…
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Philosophy of Failure
Context I’m starting this piece with a question that came to me during my first few hours of play in the franchise’s second installment: “Why am I so afraid of failure in…
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Body Horror: A mirror of our modern anxieties
Our bodies don’t belong to us. Not totally. Not really. What we perceive as a stable entity, flesh defined by precise limits, is in reality a malleable material, in perpetual change. Growing,…
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