Detroit: Become Human proposes to take narrative focused choose your own adventure games in new directions. How successful it is at balancing its heady, serious, and emotionally charged issues is ultimately up to each individual player. I think it largely…
Input Ep. 43 : How to Get Free V- Bucks, Call of Duty Won’t Have Single Player, Steam removes Visual Novels.
All three of the boys are back together for the first time in nearly a month as they catch you up on the biggest stories of the past week. Topics of Discussion: Fornite Currency Scams Call of Duty Black Ops…
Stay Review
Stay by developer Appnormals is a complicated and at times messy experience. A truly haunting, cerebral, and taut, tensely realized story in the vain of the early 2000’s film Phonebooth it is a endlessly gripping title with a protagonist in…
Input Ep. 40 Seamus Mullins All Shoutouts Extravaganza
Logan and Jarrett are joined by the lovely, wonderful, and delightfully Australian Seamus Mullins (@SeamusMullins ) to give shoutouts to the boys favorite writings and features of the past week. Shoutouts: God of War’s Kratos was an angry lump of muscle.…
Input Ep. 39 Quantic Dream Legal Case, Daybreak Layoffs, and Valve’s Shopping Spree.
The boys are all together again to talk about everybody’s favorite problematic games developer David Cage. Discussion Topics: Quantic Dream Legal Threats to Journalists. Daybreak Layoffs Daybreak ain’t know nothin’ about Columbus Nova. Valve buys Campo Santo Works Mentioned: Detroit…
Super Meat Boy Forever Preview: Hello Old Friend.
The whirl of the blades whip past as you race further towards your destruction. Sliding, running, leaping, and tumbling your way toward the end, whether that be your own short but extraordinary life or a successful completion of the level…
Input Ep. 37 – BAFTA’s, Billy Mitchell, and Steam Spy
Who doesn’t love award shows right? Jurge, Jarrett, and Logan sit down to talk all about the BAFTA Video Game awards shows latest offering and the importance, legacy, and unique place of it within the video game industry. The boys…
The Inner Friend Preview: Journeying through a child’s nightmare.
Playmind’s The Inner Friend is a game that will not make you feel good. Indeed, it is a game that will leave a strange feeling upon finishing the demo Playmind has available at Pax. The Inner Friend is an experience…
My Memory of Us Preview
A year ago I wrote that My Memory of Us promised to tell us a beautiful, charmed, and dark story of friendship set in the midst of an allegory of the second World War. One year later that promise seems…
Long Live Yharnam
Yharnam had fallen. The wretched, sunken in faces of the public. The roving, mad bands of hunters gone too far, lost to the insatiable appetite and burning rage within them. The blackened buildings of Yharnam lined thick with a heavy…
Input #35 Harassment Allegations at Midboss and Twitch’s personality problem
In the last episode before the horrors of Pax East wipe out the boys, Jarrett and Logan tackle the troubling stories coming out of Midboss games and the latest instance of a Twitch personality running into controversy. Discussion Topics: Midboss’…
Input Ep. 34: Ubisoft lives, Fortnite’s Rise, and The Video Game Industry Should Unionize
On this super special four person episode of Input Jarrett, Jurge, and Logan are joined by Ok Beast Founder and Executive Editor Blessing Adeoye Jr to talk the latest stories in the industry. Discussion Topics: Vivendi ends hostile takeover of…