This year’s E3 convention was the best entertainment I’ve watched all year. Summed up in three words? Creativity, freedom and nostalgia. It’s renewed my faith in the gaming industry’s direction by returning freedom and power […]
The Next Generation- When will the developers step up their game?
It’s been over a year since the release of the 8th generation consoles – PS4 and Xbox One. Yet many of us still haven’t felt excited enough about any of the exclusively new-gen games to […]
Features | LSi's Top Five Nineties Games
We’re all suckers for nostalgia and, as nineties kids, we can’t help but beam with joy as we reminisce about our childhoods spent playing Pokémon and various cute platform games on our Gameboy Colours and […]
Blogs | Music in Games
It wouldn’t be unreasonable to suggest games are an ultimate amalgamation of all the artforms prior to it. After all, games are an ultimate amalgamation of all the artforms prior to it. Sound plays a […]
Blogs | Games – Where Have All the Jobs Gone?
On September 12th earlier this year, 175 people at Blitz Game Studios in Leamington Spa lost their jobs. Okay, I had to look up the name too but it was a pretty close-to-home example. There […]
Blogs | Things to Consider Before Spending Money on a ‘Next-Generation’ Games Console
If you follow video games or technology, you’ll probably be hearing that the next generation is upon us with the release of the PS4 and Xbox One, the new games consoles from Sony and Microsoft […]
Blogs | Build Your Own World
Last week (http://www.leedsstudent.org/2013/09/29/blogs-playing-your-own-story/), I delivered a spiel about the extent to which games can enable people to play their very own story. The thing about such narratives is that the player is of course, the […]
Blogs | Playing Your Own Story
In last week’s piece, I touched on video games’ nature as a storytelling medium, developing experiences and forming memories personal to the player, and that gaming is arguably the most interactive method of doing so. The […]