Truly we live in wondrous times. From upstart pixel art masterpieces to narratively ambitious, independent games that look and play like AAA titles from big studios, the gaming market has never been this divers...
Just two jerks chatting about their most anticipated games of 2016... in this episode of the Existential Gamer Podcast, Peter and Julian touch on a plethora of upcoming releases including Final Fantasy XV, Pers...
For some reason I still remember my high-school English teacher being quite dismissive of Romeo: “to me it seems he’s in love with the concept of being in love.” That’s often how I feel about games. I might tel...
Hear ye, hear ye! Below you will find grounds for my public hanging: a blueprint for the perfect MMORPG, a Frankenstein of sorts, designed to succeed Ultima Online as the next Life-Ruining Game. In my role as m...
Lucky number two. That's how podcasts work, ok? For this episode Peter Kassel joins Julian Feeld again and they really get into whether or not Valkyria Chronicles is Hitler's favorite game. They also try to fig...
This is the second half of our amazing interview with Alexis Kennedy, Creative Director and co-founder of Failbetter Games, the English development studio behind dark, Victorian fantasies Fallen London and Sunl...
I hadn’t expected to buy Splatoon when it was first announced. It’s the sort of novel, inventive Nintendo game that I cry out for them to make, but ultimately end up ignoring, impatiently awaiting the next majo...
It was a day like any other in Big Sur, Californ-i-ay. Beautiful sun out, my beloved and I hiking the Tan Bark Trail, among the redwoods and the oaks, hearts swelling to the gentle rhythm of trickling creeks, s...
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: It's official, Existential Gamer is launching a podcast! Now you can put our cloying voices into your ears and transport us wherever you go. We are compatible with bathtubs, treadmills, bus...
There’s a loose cable dangling inside the case of my PC. I hear it batting against the spinning CPU fan. It’s been that way ever since I built the thing. It’s fine. The computer works, and runs games as well as...
Failbetter Games make dark, twisted games set in the Fallen London universe, an alternate universe in which Victorian London has been carried underneath the earth's crust by a swarm of bats. Yup, bats. Fallen L...
An Irish girl, of course, because apparently even after the bombs fell they kept migrating to Boston. Makes little to no sense, but hey, Fallout 4 doesn’t really go for coherence. She was a pale, freckled redhe...
