Impire Review

You know things are bad when you start to sympathize with hellspawn. At first I acknowledged my in-game avatar, demon lord of the depths Baal-Abaddon, only with the intended smirks and half-laughs warranted by his dialog. But in time I came to feel a kinship with him as we braved Impire’s clumsy micromanagement in search…

Anthony Lane on the Writing Process

Anthony Lane (famed for his work with the New Yorker) is one of my favorite prose stylists, and quite by accident I came across this diary entry that he wrote on Slate 11 years ago about the writing process. I could only find it on the Wayback Machine, so hopefully Slate will forgive me for…

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time Review (GameTrailers)

It’s been seven years since we last saw a new adventure from Sly Cooper and his lovable band of anthropomorphic thieves, and for a while it seemed he’d found retirement preferable to merely laying low. Now he’s back, and developer Sanzaru proves that they’re worthy of picking up the torch from Sucker Punch. Sly Cooper:…