Author Edmund Toomey

07/08/2017

Interviews

The Klondike collective is a group of ten video game creators and multimedia artists based in Northern France. Over the past few years Klondike have released an eclectic mix of autobiographical projects, analog...

WIRE WOOD DAUGHTERS IS A LOVING DECONSTRUCTION OF HOW WE REMEMBER

22/07/2017

Wire Wood Daughters leads you on a bewildering wild goose chase through a scattered memory. Marrying 8-bit, two-tone aesthetics with sparse, textural sound design and a disjointed narrative delivered in hushed ...

ISLANDS: NON-PLACES EXPLORES THE MUNDANE UNITS OF URBAN LIFE

16/06/2017

A muted exploration of the modern city that detractors might describe as a non-game, Islands: Non-Places has mastered the Windosill-like wonder of surrealist interaction and focused it on another familiar targe...

POTATO APPS AND THE COLLAPSE OF LATE-STAGE CAPITALISM

08/06/2017

Welcome to Potato Week, Outermode's celebration of all things spud-ly, inspired by the rather singular Spaceplan. To read more, check out the rest of the Potato Week collection. In honour of Potato Week ...

EXPLORING THE SPUD SCIENCE OF SPACEPLAN

15/05/2017

Spaceplan is probably the best idle game currently available for $2.99/£1.99 – and you can’t say fairer than that. With a sales pitch as beguiling as it is bonkers, Spaceplan’s ‘total misunderstanding of Stephe...

IN LITTLE NIGHTMARES THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED IS CONSUMERISM

03/05/2017

The puzzle-platforming worlds inhabited by cartoon-headed videogame children are always high-stakes of late. In the kinds of stories popularized by Limbo and Inside, and their many imitators, death is waiting a...

COSMIC STAR HEROINE IS A LOVE LETTER TO THE 16-BIT RPGS OF YORE

28/04/2017

90s SNES classic Chrono Trigger is a game that has haunted me from a young age. Not in a Woman in Black kind of way – more a Casper the Friendly Ghost style haunting. I first witnessed its enchanting pixelated ...

THE RINGED CITY BRINGS DARK SOULS TO AN OPEN END

17/04/2017

On sitting down to review the final piece of the Dark Souls puzzle, I'm confronted with the most daunting of questions: ‘Is there anything left to say about Dark Souls?’ The answer is no. Not only is the ans...

ABZÛ MAKES ENVIRONMENTALISM INTERACTIVE

04/04/2017