Andreas Inderwildi

Pandemien sind ein beliebtes Videospiel-Szenario. Doch Games mit Seuchen als besonderen Gegnern bringen ungew…

Brewess. Weavess. Whispess. The three Crones of Crookback Bog are perhaps the most fascinating characters in …

Demons are everywhere. For centuries, Christians suspected themselves to be beleaguered by armies of invisibl…

If you're playing a lot of games, there's no escaping the dusty depths of dungeons. They are everywhere; thei…

The world of Sekiro isn't primarily a human one. Despite all its castles and temples, the land of Ashina belo…

Wir erkunden eine Weltraumstation in, sagen wir, "Prey". Und, siehe da: ein unbeaufsichtigter Computer, desse…

It's impossible not to be struck by the sheer aesthetic splendour of Fountainhead Palace. The combination of …

How do you tackle one of the most horrific events in the history of Europe in a video game? A Plague Tale: In…

If there's one example of video game flavour text that adds much more than flavour, it's the in-game books of…

Video game worlds are facades, and sometimes we catch a glimpse of what's beyond. Recently, while exploring o…

We don't expect much of a typical video game map. As long as it guides us to our destination (and perhaps loo…

All roads lead to Rome. Eventually. For the first 5000 years, nothing much happened. We must have embarked on…

When Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was trapped in unyielding ice, it was clear the Imperial Trans-…

It's easy to underestimate the humble door. You open it, you go through. Sometimes, you must find the key fir…

There's a (mostly) unspoken axiom among players and designers that a video game avatar should fit the player …

Are games' aesthetics of death a hollow and sensationalist attempt to shock that only serves to desensitise? …

Deicide isn’t unheard-of in games, but Gwyn – powerful yet pathetic, dangerous but not evil – is such a strik…

Let's assume for the sake of speculation that game historians and preservationists manage to address the prob…

The Vikings have long ago invaded the coasts of pop culture on their dragon-headed longships and carved out t…

All games are occult. We as players are not privy to the inner workings that define the rules by which we pla…

If the games we play are anything to go by, the depths of hell are one of humankind's favourite destinations …

The places we visit in games are usually one-off affairs; we shoot or puzzle ourselves through a level and ar…

Glaives, pikes, bardiches, halberds, partisans, spears, picks and lances. Javelins, arbalests, crossbows, lon…

If the dead could blush – or play games, for that matter – famed horror writer HP Lovecraft would certainly d…