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Tag: Valkyria Chronicles

  • Genre/Divergence – Turn-based tactics

    Genre/Divergence is a new series of features that dive into niche genres of gaming, exploring their history, impact on the industry and current standing. At their core is the topic of theme and variation. What defines the genre in its simplest terms, and how games have built upon and modified the central idea. Without further…

  • It could have happened like that…

    “History is more or less bunk.” It’s surprising how this famous statement by Henry Ford, meant as a celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit in a time when America was starting to make its own history, would come to, more or less, define actual historical discourse in the latter twentieth century. The postmodern view of history…