What the Howell!

In August I attended another engaging DiGRA conference, this year held in the wonderful city of Kyoto. The conference theme was Games, Play, and the Emerging...

PlayStation Plus has been serving up a varied assortment of titles over the last few months, many of which I probably wouldn't have played otherwise. OnRush w...

I have been waiting and waiting but finally, the time has arrived when my first-born is able to play games. Proper games that is, with an actual controller, ...

The purpose of horror is to unsettle people, to make them feel afraid, disgusted or dirty, to make them stare in the face of the very worst aspects of the hu...

The first post-doc publication following on from the work completed during my PhD was presented today at the Philosophy of Computer Games (POCG2016) Conferen...

Two games in particular have surprised me recently because I loved the one that I expected to hate (Transistor) and have decidedly mixed feelings towards the...

So, the primary reason why this blog has been a little 'tumble-weedy' for the last year or so has finally been finished. I submitted my PhD thesis in Septemb...

My DiGRA 2014 Paper, Disrupting the Player's Schematised Knowledge of Game Components, is now available via the DiGRA Digital Library database. The paper out...

You can head on over to Gamasutra now to have a read of what is hopefully an interesting and honest postmortem report following the development of Amnesia: A...