In this episode, we grow small to visit Wonderland.Just to make our respect for her clear, we want to point out once more that the voice actress, Kathryn Beaumont, is still voicing the same character that she's been voicing since 1951.Also, get used to me saying "I actually really like this boss...

I want to talk about content ID. Starting from 2:25 and ending at 3:17 of this episode of Hitman (2016), I hide in a coffin in a morgue, attached to a church. During this time, an angelic song plays in the background.Imagine my surprise when I found this shortly after I uploaded the video (it was...

Our time in Sapienza comes to an end...The episodic nature of this game is pretty unique. Until this game came out, the only time the episodic model was seen was in the likes of Telltale's adventure games and others like them. Developers didn't try to use that model in other products. Alan Wake had...

Our recounting of the Kingdom Hearts series continues as we destroy the Destiny Islands and beat up Final Fantasy characters.In this episode, we compare Sora and Riku to Naruto and Sasuke. This is a more apt comparison then we expected it to be in the episode, and we actually end up making that...

After our fabulous performance in Paris, we head to Italy for some much a needed vacation... and murder.After this episode, I looked up the use of the Modern Lethal Syringe, just in case I had missed a good, or at least an interesting, use for it.Unfortunately, my conclusion seems to be the...

Welcome ladies and gentleman. Interactive Friction returns once more. Sam and I have a new idea for a series, and today we're excited to share it with you.So here's the setup: After Sam, Taylor, and I recorded the Hyperdimension Neptunia episode, the topic of Kingdom Hearts came up. Sam told me at...

And now, for a funny little diversion.Though this episode does show off a little bit of what I was talking about last episode, in truth this was just an excuse to have a little bit of fun.In case anyone thinks that Hitman is a serious game for serious people, show them this episode. Trust me, it'll...

We... look.... FABULOUS!The feedback loop for this game is one of its smartest systems, because it encourages exactly the kind of behavior gives the player the best possible "Hitman" experience.Players start with a single entrance point, and a single location they can smuggle an item into, along...

Ladies, gentleman, and all other persuasions, we at Interactive Friction are pleased to announce our new project. That's right, Sam and I are back at it!Welcome.... to Kingdom Hearts. A long while back, Sam and I were talking about how he didn't really understand the plot to Kingdom Hearts, while I...

Welcome to the Paris fashion show: Home to chic design and fabulous murder.One of the things I am grateful to Absolution for is that it forced IO Interactive to seriously improve on the sneaking/stealth mechanics of Blood Money. Where we once had this terrible binary of "detected/not detected",...