Review: Journey

Journey

PSN

Publisher: Sony Santa Monica
Developer: thatgamecompany

Release Date: 13 March 2012

What is there to say about Journey? Sometimes a game comes along that does more than just raise pulses. While plenty of games can excite and have players mainline adrenaline with bombastic set-pieces and summer movie production values, few games try for other feelings. Many games are all about the cinema experience and aping movies. Games exist that cover the science fiction genre, the pulp action genre, the noir genre. There are not any that aim to reproduce poetry or the Zen-like calm of mediation. Auteur gaming studio thatgamecompany has always broken away from convention. While they have only created three titles, each has brought the company closer to creating “art” than “games.” Journey, their third title, pushes buttons gamers may not realize that they have. Journey is something more than mere “game.”

Journey begins

Weekly News Roundup: 1 April 2012

Happy Spring, everyone!  I just finished Mass Effect 3 in the wee hours, so that review will hopefully be up in a few days.  And today is the day that gaming news should come with a very large grain of salt.  I'll have some serious stories up, and then tomorrow I'll update the post with links to collections of the best (worst?) of the Gaming World's April Fools gags.  With that, here's a few stories that caught my (distracted) eye.

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