Category: Commentary
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Maybe I just don’t like Zelda?
It’s been about three weeks since The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom released. By all accounts, it’s a masterpiece, an exemplar of the medium, the clear shoe-in for Game of the Year 2023 for those so inclined to partake in such lists. People are still posting funny videos of wild Contraptions they’re making…
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LudoNarraCon Day 1 Recap: Smart panels, tasty games
Check out some games and panels from Day One of LudoNarraCon!
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Grey Goo Futures: Another Response to ‘Review Code’
AI can’t replace critics – but that won’t stop the bosses from trying. Unionize y’all’s dang workplaces.
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On the prospect of “joylessness”
A simple calculus: why would I play a mediocre third-person action-adventure game whose progenitor supports intensely bigoted causes when I can play dozens, hundreds of other things that make me happier and aren’t actively contributing to harm?
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Time is Money: A Response to ‘Review Code’
In a rare bit of candor, a major digital culture website has deigned to pull back the curtain a little bit and show us in the audience the reasoning behind why it writes so many reviews that seem to score in the mid-to-high range, and why it tends not to write that many reviews on…
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The Discontents: Umurangi Generation, Spoiled Part Six
Coming in before the end of 2022, we are finally at the end of our journey, the last deep-dive into Umurangi Generation, the best game of 2020.
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Why does NORCO feel so familiar?
I’ve spent months struggling to express the way I resonated with NORCO’s writing.