Category: Read
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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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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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TONIGHT: No Escape From Book Club 2024’s First Meeting!
Since 2019 No Escape has been a site all about games and digital culture in “an age of conflict.” With said conflicts brewing around the world daily, we’re starting up a new book club to hopefully help make sense of it all. The theme of 2024’s book club is “games and conflict.” We’re going to…
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G/O Media’s first AI-generated content is here—and it sucks
Fuck Jim “Never Beating the Herb Allegations” Spanfeller!
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First impressions: 1000XResist
1000xResist’s demo has a lot of promise – and time travel.
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Labores Ludos Gignit!
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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Trace Then Describe
A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames by Brendan Keogh MIT Press April 2018 9780262037631
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Gamer Trouble Book Club #1: O Gamer My Gamer
Gamers have always been “trouble,” writes Amanda Phillips, and they are here to make trouble for gamers.
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Class Struggle in the Virtual City
An interview with Konstantinos Dimopoulos. His latest book, Virtual Cities: An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities, will be released on November 12, 2020, and on the occasion of its launch Matteo Lupetti virtually sat down with him and discussed the representation of capitalism and classes in game urbanism.
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You Ask For A Hamburger
This is a post addressing the straight up fucking weirdness we’ve been experiencing online lately, best summarized by the phenomenon of “cake where there should not be cake.”