SPOILER WARNING: This article will spoil key plot points of The Last of Us: Part II! This article has been in my drafts for a while...

The University of Portsmouth's Advanced Games Research Group houses talented researchers exploring a variety of topics. Our most recent...

My last post was over a year ago having just returned from DiGRA'19 in Kyoto. Covid-19 decided to come along and plonk itself squarely in...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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