Bioshock

Music sets the mood. Before there was sound in motion pictures there was music guiding the mood. Actors in films like Nosferatu would act to a metronome giving their movements a rhythm different to the work stage actors were doing. Video…

Way back when the HeadStuff Gaming section was still in its infancy I tapped Richard Drumm to write an article on BioShock for the game's tenth anniversary. The article, I think you'll agree, is a satisfying vindication of everything that…

A 2016 study by the University of Nottingham discovered that teenagers who play video games that depict alcohol and tobacco use may be influenced by that imagery. In fact, those teens were twice as likely to try tobacco and alcohol products…

Walking simulators get a bad rap. People have accused them of being boring or, most heinously, of not being games at all. The first charge only stands if you like your story delivered by bullet or bomb. The second is just plain false. While…

Video games are popular and immersive sources of media across all age groups. With the advanced gaming systems and dazzling digital effects we have today, video games have become a primary form of entertainment for young kids, as well as…

A true signifier of just how influential a property has been is how utterly sick you’ve become of seeing its tropes, themes and aesthetics show up in every subsequent copycat. There is arguably no Triple-A game in the last decade which has…

It’s cliché but true that nothing exists in or comes from a vacuum, and video games are no exception to this. Nowadays, video games have become so widespread that the terms gaming and gamers are treated by most as basically synonymous with…