Skate Story and Session Capture the Essence of Skating

As someone who grew up in the culture of skateboarding, I have always tried to find a game which really captured what it meant to skate. Skate captures the essence of popping tricks. The Tony Hawk games captured cruising around…

Greak: Memories of Azur Preview Discussion – Pax East 2020

The editors of Irrational Passions once again descend on Boston for Pax East! This time around the editors chose to highlight or have a deeper dive into a particular game they felt spoke to them after having played it on…

Genshin Impact Preview Discussion – PAX East 2020

The editors of Irrational Passions once again descend on Boston for PAX East! This time around the editors chose to highlight or have a deeper dive into a particular game they felt spoke to them after having played it on…

Shovel Knight Dig Preview Discussion – PAX East 2020

The editors of Irrational Passions once again descend on Boston for PAX East! This time around the editors chose to highlight or have a deeper dive into a particular game they felt spoke to them after having played it on…

World of Horror Preview

World of Horror is an adventure-horror game with a presentation inspired by the works of Junji Ito that I was able to play an early build of. Listen to my preview of the game on the Irrational Passions Presents feed!…

Lost Along the Way: Get to the Orange Door Preview

A hauntingly memorable game for Alex from PAX East.

The Messenger Picnic Panic DLC Video Preview with Alex & Moises

The Messenger from 2018 is getting DLC! New levels and bosses to fight! Alex is joined by Moises Taveras from OkBeast to talk about the demo they played at Pax as well as some stuff the devs showed to them…

Discussing Jazz and Puzzles in Kine – PAX East Interview With Gwen Frey

During PAX East, I was able to sit down with Gwen Frey, the sole developer of Kine. She is a veteran animator, having founded The Molasses Flood which is known for The Flame in the Flood and has worked on BioShock:…

No Straight Roads Video Preview (Direct Feed Gameplay)

Mike got to the play No Straight Roads at Pax East 2019 and was kindly provided footage of the demo he played on the showfloor. checkout this direct feed footage. This is the debut title from developers Metronomik

Afterparty Preview

As a chronically anxious person, there’s a saying I’ve heard at various points throughout my life, “Never take life too seriously, no one makes it out alive.” In Night School’s Afterparty, it turns out death is fairly similar. Afterparty is…

Streets of Rage 4 Preview Discussion

Jurge got to get hands-on with Lizardcube and Guard Crush Games’ Streets of Rage 4 at PAX East, a series very close to his heart. Alex O’Neill got to play at PAX West, so they deiced to sit down and…

Creature in the Well Video Preview (Direct Feed Gameplay)

Mike got to the play Creature in the Well at Pax East 2019 and played through and captured the full demo! The game was a standout title for Mike at Pax and we cant wait to see the game once…