A Player’s Guide to Think Aloud Comments
What are “Think Aloud Comments”? Play test feedback plays a major role in user experience (UX) development, and one of the best proven methods for player feedback are think aloud comments, or the active communication of a player’s thoughts as they interact with an interface or game. This feedback style is sometimes described as “eavesdropping on someone’s thinking”, and though this method provides insightful feedback to developers […]
How to Provide Written Feedback: Best Practices for Answering Post-Game Surveys
How Written Feedback Helps Post-game surveys are a great way for developers to understand a player’s opinions/experiences of a game, then use that feedback to create a more enjoyable player experience. Player feedback is an important part of developing an enjoyable and appealing game, so it is also important that players try their best to […]
The Psychological Benefits of Video Games
Psychology and video games: background Video games have been notoriously popular for what seems like forever. But why? What is it about video games that makes them so compelling? The United States has the largest video game presence in the entire world, and in 2017, the video game industry earned an astounding $108.9 billion (Strickland […]
Top 10 eSports Games – Show Off Your Competitive Skills
Competition has always been a major factor to playing videogames. Trying to finish the race first on Mario Kart Double Dash, or beating your friend on Street Fighter 2, we all have gone through that. A greater accessibility to videogames has highly favorised the rise of eSports and gaming competitions. Becoming a profesionnal player isn’t […]
10 games turning 20 in 2018!
Do you feel like video games have been part of our culture since recent times? Indeed, it is the case. Still, despite being a rather young industry, some games will already be celebrating their 20th birthday this year and it does not make us feel young yet. 1998 was a major milestone for the gaming […]
Top 5 Battle Royale Games – The New Gaming Fever
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, Fortnite, H1Z1, Arma 3 and Rules of survival are great examples of the success of battle royale games. It is a genre of video game based on last man standing gameplay: eliminate other players until you are the last player in the game. The formula is the sum of the survival, exploration, and […]
Cuphead: a tribute to the golden age of animation – Game Review #4
Ahhh, how good does it feel to get your hands back on a good old run and gun game? Cuphead could be crowned as a masterpiece of the genre, first for its amazing retro designs, heavily inspired by 1930s cartoons and its no-articulation characters, and also its incredible gameplay, where even the most experienced gamer […]
Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood: our test – Game Review #3
Four years after its successful facelift handled by Naoki Yoshida, Final Fantasy XIV still attracts and absorbs players looking to explore new adventures in a realm of chocobos. After witnessing the ruthless war between humans and dragons in Heavensward, it is now time to welcome the latest extension to date: Stormblood. Form the resistance! Forget […]
Top 5 games to watch at Gamelab Barcelona
The Gamelab conference gathers each year important actors of the videogame industry, from innovative game developers to game specialists. And this year will be the opportunity to witness in Barcelona some of the most promising video games in the world. Here is our top 5 games to watch at the conference! Giant Dancing Plushies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAjEDs1jDkA […]
RiME: an ambitious adventure game – Game Review #2
RiME, the long-awaited opus from the Spanish development studios Tequila Works finally got released, 4 years after its official announcement. A long project but worth the wait. If the references to myths of the adventure game – such as Journey or The Legend of Zelda – are undeniable, RiME displays its very own personality. A […]