21:00, 23 May 2014
This week’s S.EXE entry is an interview with a person who speaks and writes regularly about sex in games and who has made games about relationships along the way. I first became aware of the multimedia artist & game designer Merritt Kopas through her shrewd skewering of games on the website Nightmare Mode, for which […]
Read and comment
21:00, 09 Feb 2017
“It was obvious hours into launch that I’d messed up.” In 2010, Terry Cavanagh released the platformer VVVVVV with a launch price of $15 but soon received complaints about it being priced too high. Kieron Gillen wrote in the RPS review of VVVVVV, “While I think it is worth the money, fifteen dollars does strike […]
Read and comment
15:42, 26 Jan 2017
Ladykiller in a Bind [official site] is an erotic visual novel in which you’re trying to win votes from former classmates on a transatlantic cruise while impersonating your twin brother. There’s a fair amount of sex and the tale doesn’t shy away from exploring elements of queerness, roleplaying and various kinks as well as having […]
Read and comment
17:45, 09 Feb 2016
Who pays for games journalism? Sometimes, you do: The Offworld Collection, which bundles a year of features from Offworld.com together into a book, has been funded on Kickstarter. The project needed $30,000 to go ahead and is currently sitting at $36,846 with 24 days to go. Better yet, all of the stretch goals listed currently […]
Read and comment
10:00, 14 Apr 2015
I may read readme files but I don’t read video game manuals. What kind of a rube do you take me for? However, I made an exception for Minkomora [official site] and I urge you to as well. It’s a gentle free game about exploring a hand-drawn world filled with varied places and characters doing […]
Read and comment
21:00, 26 Sep 2014
Quentin Tarantino has a monologue about Top Gun in the little-known Hollywood metamovie Sleep With Me. In it, Tarantino discusses in his typical teenage terminology how Top Gun, as well as being a romantic Cold War macho-off, is a film about the main character coming to terms with his own homosexuality. Tarantino names this subtextual […]
Read and comment
21:00, 04 Jul 2014
My circumstances have changed yet again as I make my way around the world on a silly adventure with game developers. I find myself writing this week’s S.EXE in the muggy heart of the most boisterous American city, New York. It is currently pissing it down, and yet, as my friend Rob Dubbin remarks, it […]
Read and comment
14:00, 09 Jun 2013
THIS WEEK: The first 20 minutes of Call of Duty. Noise music fishing trip. HUG. DOUBLE HUG. TRIPLE HUG. M-M-M-M-MONSTER HUG
Read and comment
08:00, 07 Jun 2013
HUGPUNX is a sly, heart-fluttering wink in videogame form. It’s not long at all, but who cares? There’s enough 60-hour epics in the world to last us 60 million years. This one comes from Merritt Kopas (she of the powerfully minimal Lim and countless other bits of brilliance), and it’s quite overtly inspired by PUNKSNOTDEAD. […]
Read and comment
14:00, 12 May 2013
Princess + bomb = cake. Wasteland baseball brutality. Endangered hypertext preserve.
Read and comment
14:00, 10 Mar 2013
Masocore as designed by 11 year olds. Painting Tycoon. Simian mobile discord. Underwater multiplayer Cactus Block.
Read and comment
14:00, 17 Feb 2013
THIS WEEK: Queer edutainment. Clickless Twine. “As you are paralyzed with pain he punches you so hard that your head explodes.”.
Read and comment
14:00, 27 Jan 2013
THIS WEEK: Anne Hathaway’s erotic mouthscape. Arkham Horror crossed with Sailor Moon. The Yellow Wallpaper 3D. PROFANE BEAST SOLDIER.
Read and comment
13:00, 22 Jan 2013
Kentucky Route Zero is a joyously original, heartfelt thing. If you haven’t already played it, go do that. If you have, then step on down to the RPS porch, pull up a slightly weather-worn deck chair, and let some soulful bluegrass overwhelm your senses. Easy, easy. The interview will begin soon, but for now, there’s certainly no […]
Read and comment
14:00, 06 Jan 2013
First-parser linguistic shooter. Queer pirate plane. You’re a good fleshchaos Charlie Brown. They say if an Emily Short pokes her head above ground at the start of a new year, the > crop will be plentiful.
Read and comment
14:00, 30 Dec 2012
GAME OF THE YEAR BEST OF EDITION TOP 10 APOCALYPSE GAME OF THE YEAR 2012 BEST OF GOTY EDITION EDITION
Read and comment
14:00, 21 Oct 2012
Runlike. Two-player text adventure. Turn-based bullet hell. STREEMERZ. “lot of ennemies, all weird ones”. Break someone’s game. CYOA-strategy Wild West vignette.
Read and comment
21:00, 01 May 2015
From 2014-2015, RPS’s Senior Scottish Correspondent Cara Ellison wrote S.EXE, 29 columns about games about sex, games about love, games about the space in between those two things, games about sexuality, and games about schlongs. Unfortunately the series is on indefinite hiatus as Cara takes a break from writing about games after her spectacular but […]
Read and comment
14:10, 09 Sep 2012
It’s time for Porpentine of Free Indie Games to usher in the indie games we might otherwise have missed. Take it away: Torn apart by your own heartbeat. You are the armada. Detonation aspirations. Evolutionary platformer. Shattered automaton affection. Aesthetic ant farm.
Read and commentSometimes the Rock Paper Shotgun Search-O-Tron 3000 can misinterpret your request. If you can't find what you're looking for, alter your search terms. Or just type some random words in.
