PanicMode

A lot has changed since we started Panic Mode a little over two years ago!

*Spoilers Ahead!*

feature creep /fiːʧə kriːp/ noun. 1 implementing components beyond development capacity 2 shooting for the moon and exploding nowhere near…

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Dark Souls is my favourite video game of all time, and no game had ever hooked me quite like it before or since. And now with several…

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Ah, yes. The old “Do video games cause violence” debate. A debate so loaded with biased hyperbole on both sides that I feel like I’m at a…

Since the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch nearly a year ago, it has been a blood bath between friends in…

“Panic Mode” is the state which game developers (among other kinds of humans) enter for a number of reasons, from impending deadlines, to…