From the Blorg Blog
Three Underdog Game Narratives You Missed in 2023
We made it. There's SO much digital ink online right now for the myriad huge, incredible games that came out this year. So I wanted to highlight interesting narrative experiences I had from places that might have flown under your radar. Maybe the game was smaller, or the situation was weird and no one defined it. Hah! Killer Frequency You're a small town radio DJ in the 80s, and you have to field calls to the sheriff's department while a serial killer is on the loose. That's the premise of Team17's VR-optional adventure game. I loved both the hook and the game's comedy [...]
The END of Learning from Evangelion
Learning From Evangelion MORE Learning From Evangelion I knew I'd end up paying to listen to an Evangelion podcast eventually. The Get Played trio started an anime podcast, and I was delighted and unsurprised to learn that, like me, Heather Anne Campbell is a huge Eva nerd. If you're a fan, I recommend you check it out. I've learned things I did not know about a show I've watched at least a dozen times in my life. Respect. Note: Yes, it's a Patreon pod, but it only costs $5/month, and you can always wait and binge the whole thing once they're done going through [...]
Phasers, and when to get into that sweet Star Trek technobabble.
I was just watching the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (which is a pretty great show, even after just six episodes), and there was a moment with a bit of phasers technobabble. Something in the vein of "target their engines, minimum yield." Okay, point made in the dramatic sense. They don't wanna kill anyone or destroy the ship. Got it. But by the time I'd paused the show to let my brain run on its own because of that simple bit of tech detail, I realized this is an opportunity to welcome you behind the looking glass. We have plenty of [...]



