A Halloween Miracle
Chiller, a Halloween Classic Every Halloween season I find myself talking to anyone in earshot about the twisted mid-80s arcade horror classic, Chiller. Playing it at a rundown [...]
October 2018
April 2018
What We’re Looking Forward to at PAX East 2018
PAX East 2018 will officially commence tomorrow! A bunch of us here at Sandbox Strategies will be among the thousands descending upon Boston for the massive gaming festival. Last year [...]
March 2018
GDC 2018
San Francisco during a rare sunny moment of GDC It’s been another stellar GDC in the books, filled with great game discussions, industry trends, old friends and [...]
A Look Back: The Original Far Cry
The impending release of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 will make it the 5th Far Cry in the past 6 years. Well technically it’ll be the 4th since Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon [...]
December 2017
Our Games of the Year
The year is winding down, and now’s the time to reflect on our favorite games of 2017. And later this week, we’ll see how our choices stack up against the [...]
May 2016
Value Game
This is my personal gaming backlog. I keep it taped to my bedroom wall. When I buy or receive a title, I add it to the list. Many things on [...]
August 2015
Just Passing Through: Walking Simulators
As an overall fan of “walking simulator” games (a phrase I’m a little less bothered by as I remember that walking in real life is often rewarding), I enjoyed this [...]
April 2015
Mature Games, and Games about Maturity
When we talk about educational games, we tend to focus on products that are strictly tuned to teach or apply a specific skill. But what about the educational value of [...]
March 2015
A Cid for All Seasons
There’s so much to admire in this piece from Polygon last week in which fashion editors from Racked critique the ever-changing look of Final Fantasy’s Cid, the character/archetype who appears in nearly every [...]
The Heart of Indie
One of the happier little trends of the past year has been Ubisoft’s steady stream of smaller games. Titles like Grow Home, Child of Light, and Valiant Hearts: The Great War have stood out [...]