Eric Van Allen's discussions

He’s from Street Fighter, but he’s a guest character in the newest Tekken, along with a few others like Noctis and Geese Howard. Read more

Oh geez, that totally slipped through my radar! I thought there was another off week before the next major. This last sprint into TI is a doozy. Read more

If you liked Stories, you’ll see a lot of the same DNA here and have a good few hours with it. Read more

Hey yeah, Twitch clips decided to start autoplaying embeds today without warning, sorry about that. I’ve updated the story so the videos link out to each clip while we try to sort out what’s going on. Read more

Depends on the game. Titanfall 2 feels great on a Dualshock, but I can never imagine playing Overwatch on a controller when KBM is so good. Read more

The opening of Final Fantasy X, when Sin attacks Zanarkand, was pretty awesome. Read more

I want to see a modern Ghost in the Shell game. Read more

Any Dota 2 balance patch meme. Off the top of my head, when Ogre Magi got +1 armor.  Read more

I was horrified to open that and find out that not only had I consumed one on more than a single occasion in college, but that it was called Rob Dyrdek’s Sweat. Read more

Pancakes, Reese’s Puffs, Texas-style BBQ Read more

Solo, if you have a regular group it’s probably a very different story. Read more

Smash for Switch, Kingdom Hearts 3, and it’d be cool if the last Evangelion movie came out before the end of the universe. Read more

I did not expect much of Celeste and I keep going back to it. Read more

Ray Liotta, inspiring freelancers everywhere.

Write a lot. Find people who will give you good, honest critique. Read other writers who aren’t games writers, and note what you like about their writing style. Your best writing is often a reflection of yourself. If you want to write like the best, consume the best. Also, be ready to hear “no” more often than “yes”… Read more

Lara Croft in Kingdom Hearts 3. Disney is neat but I’d like some Square Enix reps in the next game too. Give me the KH take on Agent 47, or Noctis and the boys. Read more

I’ve stopped doing it. Wish I could say it was to make some bold stance but honestly, once you realize there isn’t a shortage issue and those items will either break the game’s balance or be inconsequential by hour 2, it loses any luster it might have had. It feels a lot better to skip a game I wouldn’t have liked and… Read more

Monster Prom reminds me a lot of those flash dating games you would find on Newgrounds. It has some roguelike elements, obfuscated stat checks. It’s much more about repeated sequences than longer narrative routes. It scratches a weird nostalgic itch I have for that era of game design, though the writing is wildly… Read more

Just push play.