Confessions of a Skooma Eater

“Sheggorath, you are the Skooma Cat, for what is crazier than a cat on skooma?” -Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi   Khazura will now tell you about the moon sugar and its more potent derivative, skooma. For skooma is why

The open roads of Skyrim

As a gamer I am what we call a chronic restarter. I’ve gotten better about it since I’ve started writing about games (as I have to beat things in a timely fashion), but as a kid I would restart Super

Playing the System

So, I’ve been thinking. I’ve written at least two hundred articles on this here blog. Assuming that the average length is about six hundred words, I’ve written about two small novels on video games. And these numbers are conservative. I

Bethesda Community Interview on Skyrim

  The wait is over! The good folks at Bethesda have posted the Fan Interview on the official Bethesda Forums. Many of us here at Nightmare Mode are drooling of some of the juicy bits that have been revealed in

Latent Intricacy

Multum in parvo. It’s a Latin phrase that I feel encapsulates the concept of emergence. Complexity borne of the combination of simple things. Linearity in games can offer the benefits of structure and focus, but it comes with a loss

Reasons we should care about Skyrim

(Picture taken, for reference, from http://snowskadi.deviantart.com/art/. Because it’s a brilliant picture. Moving right along…) Just days after I complained about massive waves of hype about new games, we get information about Skyrim in exactly the way games information should come:

For the Ugliest Bastard Alive

I was planning to start it by telling what my first impressions of the game were, but because they were too much focused on the face generator aspect of it, I’ve decided to make a dedicated blog post about it.