Philip Boyes

Feature | Hot Air and High Winds: A Love Letter to the Fantasy Airship

High Fantasy.

Feature | Traps, treasure and ancient tomb raiders

Press X to not die.

Feature | Does bad archaeology make for the best games?

X never marks the spot.

Feature | How ideas of civilisation have shaped gaming

Level progression.

Feature | From Final Fantasy 12 to Uncharted 3: exploring gaming's Orientalist fantasies

Bazaar new worlds.

Feature | In praise of video game castles

Do keep up.

Feature | Imagining the past in Assassin's Creed

Ezio said than done?

Feature | Imagining and deciphering writing systems for games

From Zelda and The Witcher to The Elder Scrolls and Sethian.

Feature | Where do monsters come from?

Tracking the leviathan, from Ugarit to Final Fantasy.

Feature | Breath of the Wild and telling stories through archaeology

Narrative arch.