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The Week in Links #2
Here’s the cream of the Chewing Pixels Twitter Link farm from the past seven days. There’s bound to be something in here that interests you, right? • It’s all fun and games until someone gets their head stuck in a 3,600-year-old Sumerian pot. • “I actually think that it’s a very natural thing for players ...
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Tales of Vesperia – Xbox 360 Review
In a genre obsessed with world-threatening crises, Tales of Vesperia’s initial focus on a local emergency is refreshing. It’s the fantasy equivalent of a burst water main: a magical fountain whose powering gem-stone has been stolen, causing water to flood the lower district of Zaphias, the medium-sized city in which your character resides. Yuri is ...
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Bullet from a Logan
The idea behind this, my first column for Offworld, is to pick out, discuss and celebrate a worthwhile or interesting mechanic from an unashamedly mainstream videogame. Offworld is a brilliant clearing house for gaming’s esoterica but rarely covers the medium’s blockbusters (a pleasing reversal of the focus found on most large gaming sites). Hopefully the ...
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Rhythm Paradise – Nintendo DS review
We forget, in these days of plastic Les Pauls, colour-coded drum kits, flashing dance mats, wireless microphones and geriatric-rocker licensed rhythm action, but the very first music videogame had little to do with pretending to be a rock star. Rather, you tapped buttons in time with some Sesame Street hip-hop in order to make an ...
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The Week in Links #1
Chewing Pixels has had a Twitter feed for a couple of months now but it’s only really in the last week that I’ve swallowed my scepticism and started using it properly, primarily as a link stream for interesting things that don’t quite deserve a whole post of their own. You can follow along here if ...