Jonathan Holmes
Jonathan Holmes started writing about games professionally in 2008. Present - Nintendo Force Magazine, Lock-On Magazine, Game Bound Generations. Past - Destructoid, Machinema, A Profound Waste of Time
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Dreams on a Pillow tells a tragic Nakba story, needs crowdfunding
Rasheed Abueideh, lead developer on the Liyla & The Shadows of War, is back with a new crowdfunding campaign for a second game about the real-life experiences of Palestinians attempting to survive in a state of constant threat. Dreams on a Pillow puts you in the shoes of a mother who his fleeing her home during the Nakba – a…
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Top five ways to rationalize GameStop’s bizarre attempt to buy eBay
In case you haven’t been keeping track, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen has been hustling for the past few weeks to buy eBay, the online action site. It makes sense on paper for the two companies to merge, as they were both premiere spots to buy used games 20 years or so ago, and combining their powers like old, rusty Voltron…
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Experience the story of Resident Evil 2 in a bizarre new way in this totally off base Chinese comic
Sometimes mutation is the sincerest form of flattery. If something doesn’t inspire some sort of expansion or iteration, chances are it wasn’t that interesting to begin with. This ability to riff on itself has been key to Resident Evil’s continued success as a franchise. Not only has each game in the series found a way to spin the DNA of…
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Resident Evil: Requiem is blatantly better than The Last of Us Part II
My colleague and friend Stephanie Sterling coined the “blatantly better” farcical-yet-sincere essay series over on Destructoid.com many years ago, and so, it feels right to do a derivative version of her features today, in order to best express my thoughts on Resident Evil: Requiem, a game that is also farcical, sincere, and derivative, but in all the right ways. That’s…
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The Top Five Movie-est Movies Ever Videogame’d
Do you remember Movies? Y’know, “Movies”? Capital “M” Movies? Cinema? The confluence of “high art” and “low art” that our collective culture once agreed was the most important form of entertainment in the world? Back in the 1940s, before TVs were everywhere, the majority of Americans saw up to two movies a week in the theater. These days, movies have…
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Grasshopper Manufacture may be dead if “Class F*ck up” Romeo is a Dead Man f*cks up
Romeo is a Dead Man hits shelves today, which is cause for celebration for fans of Suda51. Hopefully, those fans will show up to buy it, because, if not, Grasshopper Manufacture may be joining Romeo.
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Support Romeo Is A Dead Man if you want Suda51 to keep making games
Maybe it's panicking about nothing, but some red flags have gone up around Grasshopper Manufacture's newest project, Romeo is a Dead Man. Could Netease dropping as the publisher spell certain doom? It might!
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Let’s give thanks for the life and work of Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman
This month, we lost one of the foundational members of the art form. We say good-bye to Rebecca "Burger Becky" Heineman by taking a look at her life. Not just her career, but the person she was.
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The passing of Tomonobu Itagaki marks the end of an era
Industry legend Tomonobu Itagaki died early this month. His cause of death hasn’t been formally disclosed, but prior to his passing, he was fairly transparent about having health issues to the degree that might require hospitalization. It could be the last time that the storied developer made headlines, but it was far from the first. His public rivalry with Tekken…
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Grand Theft Auto 6 probably won’t be that important
“Is that an intentionally provocative headline?” you ask? Er, I guess. What’s more provocative to me personally, and the reason I wanted to write this, is the ugly idea that some games are more universally important than others. That some values about what makes a game good or bad are more correct than others. That if you like certain games,…
