Browsing all articles by Patrick Lindsey, Author at PIXELS OR DEATH.
10 Signs You’re Being an Overly Exclusionary Jackass To Compensate For Your Insecurity
Patrick Lindsey | Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Seriously. Fuck this shit.
Shame on you Complex. Shame on you.
Zoe Quinn has eloquently composed a rebuttal.
Why I’m Not Backing Project Eternity
Patrick Lindsey | Thursday, September 27, 2012 
We can all agree that Kickstarter has done some pretty amazing things for videogames. It’s given small developers whose projects would normally get eaten alive by EA or Activision the chance to circumvent the Machine and acquire resources they otherwise wouldn’t normally have to make and sell their game, oftentimes …
Learning to Speak Pixels
Patrick Lindsey | Tuesday, September 18, 2012 
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that recently we’ve developed an obsession with “really hard games.” I’ve adopted last year’s Dark Souls, the (in)famously self-proclaimed “hardest game ever,” a game so hard its tagline is “Prepare to Die,” insinuating not only will you probably fail quite often, but it’s …
Why the Metal Gear Solid Movie Sends Me Into “Alert Mode”
Patrick Lindsey | Friday, August 31, 2012 
Steam rises off of the frigid Alaskan water. The boots of the genome soldiers resonate dully off of the corrugated steel shipping crates lining the walls of the docks. Suddenly, the water stirs. The inverse meniscus of a head crowns above the surface, and a figure silently emerges. Solid Snake …
Spec Ops: The Line Isn’t Profound, It’s a Shooter
Patrick Lindsey | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 
I hate shooters.
I just thought I should get that out of the way up front. They’re just too busy trying to be self-important and Epic and cover a Grand Scope and really Touch On The Human Condition to step down from their lofty, ambitious pedestals to realize that the genre …
Introducing The Long
Patrick Lindsey | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 Every now and then a site comes along that aims to change the face of videogames as we know them. That aims, through sheer dint of will and spirit, not to mention lengthy, 5,000-word dissertations drawing on the works of Kojima, Miyamoto, Bissell, Bogost, Proust, Hocking, Freud, Shakespeare, Newell, and …
