George A. Cheal·Dec 3, 2025All Video Game Genre Names SUCK.Okay, not ALL of them, but enough of them do to barely justify the clickbait title.
George A. Cheal·Oct 9, 2024NFS Unbound is The Best Horror Game EverThis is how a street racing game taught me about horror game design.A response icon1A response icon1
George A. Cheal·Mar 22, 2024Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty’s Revenge — An Unnecessarily Long ReviewIn the words of Don Hertzfeldt, “the past never vanishes away and the future has already happened”.
George A. Cheal·Jul 2, 2023Alice in Wonderland is Walt Disney’s most subversive animated movie.I can explain.
George A. Cheal·Apr 16, 2023Review: I love PIZZA TOWER, but I’m not sure if it loves me…Ronan de Caste’s magnum opus has been a long time coming: formed right at the epicentre of pop-media nostalgia for the second millennium…
George A. Cheal·Aug 5, 2022A Short and Grumpy Review of the BBC Proms’ ‘From 8-Bit to Infinity’Not even Jessica Curry could save this one.
George A. Cheal·Feb 27, 2022Do we REALLY need a new Banjo-Kazooie game?After years of waiting with the fans, I have to wonder: would there be much merit at all in making a new Banjo-Kazooie game…?
George A. Cheal·Dec 19, 2021Ludonarrative Style and PitfallObserving the storytelling ghosts of game industry’s past