Author: Kaile Hultner
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Go Get the Palestinian Relief Bundle!
Go get the Palestinian Relief Bundle starting at $8! Do it now!
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The No Escape review of the Jimquisition review of Dragon’s Dogma 2
This is a response to a review of a video game. It is not beef.
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and the Art of Letting Go and Moving On
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is ambitious, emotionally-charged and deeply humanistic. It’s no surprise that it’s the perfect sendoff for Kazuma Kiryu, and a great reintroduction for Ichiban Kasuga.
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I can think of no better way to celebrate Akira Toriyama’s life and works right now than to play Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Akira Toriyama passed away earlier this month at the age of 68. The creator of Dragon Ball and an artist behind games like Chrono Trigger, the Dragon Quest series and Blue Dragon left behind truly one of the most consequential legacies in entertainment anywhere in the world, and we’re all poorer for his absence. My…
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I love and miss Maximum Rocknroll
The moment that changed my life forever was November 2008, when I turned 16. For my birthday, my parents bought me my first guitar and amp, a left-handed Fender Squier and a tiny Marshall. I awkwardly (and poorly) taught myself music fundamentals on that motherfucker; I would join up with a high school friend and…
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Return to Grace review: strangely graceless
It’s been a couple weeks since I rolled credits on Return to Grace, Creative Bytes Studios’ third game. It’s a nominal first-person adventure game where you play a future archaeologist on a suicide mission to Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, to make contact with a long-dormant, possibly dead artificial intelligence that once controlled the entire Solar…
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The thing they say they’re mad at never actually matters
Ten years ago, a bunch of bigoted fascist assholes used false pretenses to terrorize women, queer people and people of color in the video game industry, in games media, and even in academic games studies. These false pretenses – proven false at the time and repeatedly many times over in the years since – do…
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So this is weird
Hey so I haven’t really been writing a whole lot lately, but it’s for the usual reasons: exceptional depression, severe stun-lock related to ongoing current events both inside and outside video games, not really having much to write about games-wise at any rate. But that’s about to change, because I am forcing myself to write…
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Thoughts on True Detective Night Country
“It’s always the same damn story with the same damn ending. So we told ourselves a different story, with a different ending.” Spoilers, naturally. So, I finished it. Like 3.2 million people, I watched the season finale of True Detective: Night Country. I’ve spent the last 36 hours hooting and hollering and I think I…