Thursday, January 18, 2018

Nintendo Labo: What it is, how it works, and why it's good.


Teased by Nintendo as a "new interactive experience" that is "specially crafted for kids and those who are kids at heart," Nintendo Labo seems at first to be a very strange meshing of papercraft and DIY robot building.  Utilizing unique features of the Nintendo Switch console with custom cardboard cradles and housings, you'll be able to transform the video game console into a myriad of devices with new functionality, creating new gameplay experiences in the process.  It's kind of the reverse end of what the public thought Nintendo might do with custom switch joy-cons for certain games, instead adapting the unique functionality of the joy-cons themselves.

Monday, January 1, 2018

Best game music of 2017


With an outstanding year for games, it's only natural for a bunch of awesome soundtracks to follow suite.  I've sorted 65 of the best tracks in roughly chronological order from games I played over past year into the playlist above.  Extra thoughts at the break bellow.