Search results for: “call of duty”
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II… is a bad video game
I don’t hold very high esteem for Call of Duty generally, but this summer, I decided to buck my own prejudices and take an honest dive into the series’ most consequential sub-franchise, Modern Warfare.
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This is No Escape.
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About Us. Started in 2019, No Escape covers games and digital culture from a radical perspective. From examinations of the content of popular war games like Call of Duty to ruminations on surveillance and police violence in games like Umurangi Generation, Kaile Hultner and over 30 contributors have spent the last four years scouring games…
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The Status-Quo (A)politics of Modern Warfare II
Back in 2019, when the first rebooted Modern Warfare title came out, two top Infinity Ward devs looked a GameInformer reporter in the eye and said, “I don’t think it’s a political game.” You can hear the incredulousness in the reporter’s short reply: “Really?”
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Oh no! I played all of the currently-available Modern Warfare games!
I’ve been historically pretty up-front about my disdain for Call of Duty. I’ve mentioned it multiple times directly as a game series that is emblematic of the industry’s wider problems, and I even wrote a whole post about how the upcoming release in the franchise (at time of writing) could get fucked. It is published…
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Geoff Keighley’s Summer Feighleys 2022 Day One: We heard you liked Space Horror
EDIT: I initially wanted to put this in with the original post but I forgot because my brain is fucked right now, but since the Summer Game Fest is such a creativity suck, you should go buy the Queer Games Bundle. It’s $60 for nearly 600 games and such, and it’s got a lot of…
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GamesBeat shows us how not to write about video game corporations in the middle of discrimination and harassment lawsuits
When a company gets sued by a state government because they foster a fundamentally dangerous workplace to anyone who isn’t straight, cisgender, white, or male, it’s not a business writer’s job to tell them how to maneuver the choppy waves.
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No-Year’s Resolution
TL;DR: I’m taking some time off in November, December and January to read more, react less and figure out a better way to write that leaves me more fulfilled and feeling less shitty.
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Video game criticism in an age of conflict
Video games are not an escape from the realities we face. But we can make our own escape route.
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