Gaming

Video game performance has become a very specialized discipline. No longer does it require a voice actor to do a few days of grunting and screaming in a booth. It's the whole package now with voice acting only a part of a performance that…

It might seem like video games have always been popular, but the time people spend playing them consistently continues to rise. More than half of American homes have a gaming console, and about 76% of Americans have spent some time playing…

The pandemic transformed gaming and live streaming from a nerdy niche to an international pastime. In the past year, average viewership on Twitch has been well above 2.5 million and over 1 million streamers go live every day.  The…

I've been chasing a dragon for a decade and a half. My first experience with a role playing video game was Bethesda's Oblivion, the fourth entry in The Elder Scrolls series. After the character creation, main story set-up and tutorial are…

Recent statistics from Twitch show that the number of people streaming on their platform has doubled in the last two years.  That stat shouldn’t really come as a surprise. International lockdowns brought many folks back to gaming, and…

Sifu in Cantonese means a skillful person or a master. This simple title and meaning for Slocap’s newest gaming venture after 2017's much-loved Absolver is a fitting moniker for an experience that punishes you over and over in an effort to…

Is it wrong to ask for a game that, from launch to rolling credits, just works? I would say no generally but more specifically I would also say that games are complex beasts made up of multiple systems that clash more often than they…

The metaverse is no longer just a buzzword or an abstract concept of sci-fi plots. Nowadays, huge game developers have taken on the task of building this 3D digital world, largely stemming from AR/VR video games. While the metaverse may…

2022 is already the biggest year for the games industry since 2014. Not since GamerGate has the industry been forced to witness such a seismic shift. Although this time the shift is both cultural and financial. In January of this year…

I was 20 years old when I first knew I was depressed. I existed in a blank fog a lot of the time, eating and sleeping just to survive, going to college and work because at least there I might feel something. Repetitive actions soothed the…