Radiator Blog

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British...

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin,...

SPOILER WARNING: I keep specific story spoilers vague, but I do have to talk about what happens in the games somehow. So I still kinda spoi...

I made a new single player Quake 1 map called "Breakfast Under The Balloons" for the community map pack Coppertone Summer Jam 2 , ...

Logjam by Robert Yang Logjam is the latest in my gay sexuality series -- a short small game about a middle aged lumberjack daddy processing...

There's been some game dev twittering about Unity vs. Unreal lately . Why use Unity when Unreal is better? The basic consensus is that U...

SPOILER WARNING: this post spoils levels, main quests, and gameplay systems in Deathloop I guess this post is my contribution to Deathloop d...

I've written previously about murder in Skyrim , epic Skyrim fan game Enderal , and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City . ...

For Rock Paper Shotgun, I recently wrote a three-part series "Quake Renaissance" . Part 1 is an industry history of Quake's c...

all drawings by Eleanor Davis "We Dwell in Possibility" (WeDIP) is a new queer gardening simulation game about planting bodies and...

My fourth released Quake single player map "Daughter Drink This Water" is now out, as part of a community map jam pack called Sini...

I'm playing a giant Skyrim "total conversion" mod called Enderal . It does a lot of interesting things but also less-than-good...

I made another Quake map! This one is called "Smell It In The Street" and it was made for the Doom Tintin map jam , a level design...

Hard Lads by Robert Yang This post “spoils” what happens in my new game Hard Lads . If you care about spoilers, you should play it before...

I finished playing two 2020 RPG tactics games recently: Horizon's Gate and Gears Tactics. I've also written at length about Invisibl...

OK I know Heavy Rain isn't an FPS but I like this screenshot so I don't care Every semester for our introductory Games 101 hist...

This week I finished streaming through all 15 official missions of Thief 1  (Gold edition) as part of my "Level With Me" project...

A soldier hiding behind a gray box in a futuristic lab, from Deus Ex Human Revolution (2011) The room pictured above from Deus Ex: Human...

This post is adapted from a talk I gave at Queerness and Games Conference 2018 . Game feel is most known through indie game developer S...

In "Portraits and Repetition", Gertrude Stein argues that repetition is better understood as "insistence": "....