Category: Feature
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A new series of reviews and essays on latter-day Final Fantasy and modern games culture.
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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…
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Roughly halfway through El Paso, Elsewhere you meet Draculae for the first time.
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How many years will we let pass, how much more brutal must every single fight become before everyone finally lets Kazuma Kiryu go?
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This year at the Game Awards, the Game Workers of Southern California stood in front of the industry and proudly proclaimed: Labor Creates Games!
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On a brightly lit soundstage, two heavily made up drag queens look out at us, the audience outside the screen. They are bemused, observing without observing. Cognizant of the watchers…
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On Game Anthologies Like any type of media, video games are presented in the tried-and-true forms familiar to their audiences. Mini games, visual novels, and RPGs are as ubiquitous for…
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Mini Metro was a pleasing, inoffensive game about creating a public train system. Its sequel, Mini Motorways, could easily be described as “the same, except it’s cars.” There is, however,…
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A short primer on Drakengard 3 and Xenofeminism (Spoilers for Hybrid Child and Drakengard 3 follow) One of Yoko Taro’s most lovingly cited sources of inspiration is the book Hybrid…