Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider the new GTA6 videogame as leaked screenshots from Metaverse VR: 3840 x 2160 .jpg To notice such Eurojank style graphical aesthetics, with their programmer’s debugging command prompts and headups – visible lines of energy flow, indications of movement and inner structural mechanics – a host of normally hidden pathways. It’s like what … Read more
RND/ In which the closer you look, the more you can’t fail to notice the utter silent desperation behind the dead eyes of Star Citizen developers – a cringy, often darkly hilarious cross of burnt-out hound dog looks, rapidly phasing in between implied meanings such as: ‘everything’s fine we swear’ ‘being forced to lie’ ‘utterly … Read more
RND/ to consider streaming for two hours with zero views, all just to get some fucking red cube to appear: Now that’s some (/seriously misguided) dedication – but to what, inexactly? Some dim, dull videogame that nobody will play – or simply consume whole like Pez candy before casually discarding along the abandoned neon superhighway … Read more
RND/ consider a red dead rock star crunch redemption [1] 3840×2160 .jpg – In which discussions of Red Dead Redemption from merely techical standpoints sound like sheer machine-like insanity – a pair of shrunken horse testicles squeezed by the ever grasping hands of the aaa games industry: “The year is 1899 the turn of the … Read more