The Moving Pixels Podcast Discusses 'Tales from the Borderlands Episode 2'
Our foray into the adventure-game-style version of the Borderlands continues.
26 Jun 2017
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The Moving Pixels Podcast Discusses 'Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 1'
Tales from the Borderlands tests whether or not Telltale's conversation-driven adventure game can work as a comedy.
30 May 2017
In Episodic Games, Space Should Matter More Than Time
The most successful episodic games have mimicked television episodes. What could a purely game-like "episode" look like, though?
22 Jun 2016
The Walking Dead Michonne, Episode 3
With so few even semi-accurate portrayals of mental illness in games, I'm forced to give The Walking Dead: Michonne props for getting what little I know and understand about the facts right.
Eric Swain
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16 Jun 2016
'The Walking Dead: Michonne' Confronts the Issues of Surviving Grief and Trauma
Grief and trauma always seems a side venture to The Walking Dead's plots, never the central focus. Michonne seems to want to put these concerns front and center.
Eric Swain
Reviews
17 Mar 2016
Growing Apathetic to 'Game of Thrones: Episode 4' and '5'
The plot of Telltale's Game of Thrones continues with some new minor wrinkles, but on the whole, the experience has lost a sense of originality.
Eric Swain
Reviews
30 Nov 2015
Moving Pixels Podcast: Choose Your Own Clementine
This week we each discuss the Clementine that we have decided will resolve this season of The Walking Dead.
24 Nov 2014
Moving Pixels Podcast: A House Dividing
Set against the backdrop of a museum dedicated to the Civil War, Clementine and her companions experience their own house dividing.
10 Nov 2014
Moving Pixels Podcast: Fairy Tales of Politics, Fairy Tales of Justice
This week we discuss the consequences of crime and its effects on a community that come at the conclusion of The Wolf Among Us
29 Sep 2014
Moving Pixels Podcast: Nearly Happily Ever After
This week we discuss the quieter and more subdued penultimate chapter of The Wolf Among Us.
19 Aug 2014
Moving Pixels Podcast: Dictators and Dead Guys
This week we discuss "In Harm's Way," the middle episode of The Walking Dead game.
04 Aug 2014
Moving Pixels Podcast: The Fairy Tale of the Economic Downturn
The Wolf Among Us explores a very real broken economy through the unreal lives of its fairy tale inspired characters.
23 Jun 2014
Moving Pixels Podcast: The Seamier Side of Fairy Tales
On this episode of the Moving Pixels Podcast, we explore just how bad we can make the Big Bad Wolf in The Wolf Among Us.
31 Mar 2014
Moving Pixels Podcast: All That Remains of 'The Walking Dead'
We chat about the follow up to the best video game of 2012, The Walking Dead.
20 Jan 2014
Hard Boiled Combat: Enduring the Quick Time Event
The Wolf Among Us's quick time events typify the hard boiled genre better than any elegant combat system would or than any analytically driven puzzle solving might. Moments less to be won than to be survived or endured.
11 Dec 2013
Who Needs Interactivity?
Players don't belong on a pedestal. There are plenty enough reasons to limit video game interactivity.
26 Nov 2013
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