First impressions count for a lot, and that's as true in video games as it is in anything else. The opening moments of a game will crystallise the player's opinion moving forward, and in extreme cases ...

Opening cinematics used to perform an important function in games: they showed us the vision. They invited us to form a beautifully-rendered mental image, based on the jumble of text and sprites we ...

We tend to associate video game intros with lavish, pre-rendered cinematic sequences. Something to help kickstart the story, set the tone. Which is fine, but there’s been a video game intro stuck in ...