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As a rule, it’s never a good idea to judge a game – or any piece of media – based on its marketing. Unfortunately, you can basically get the gist of Somerville from its trailers.
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There’s a point where Chorus (stylized Chorvs) begins to grip you. That point is probably situated at different places for different people, but for me it was about ten hours in.
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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…
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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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The writing is pretty much on the wall. Twitter’s going down the drain quickly. On Thursday, a bunch of actually-important executives (three words I never thought I’d string together) quit the site, and the Chief Shit, Elon Musk, told all…
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This year has, unfortunately for me, been all about a handful of Big Projects. I’m very grateful to have them, but I haven’t really had the opportunity to sit down and enjoy smaller games because I’m off doing some random…
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When I was in middle school, my principal decided that it would be a good use of time and resources to have a program twice a month before school called “Building Men” that would help the male students who attended…
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In 2022, the opening of The Last of Us: Part I depends on a landline phone. Sarah Miller answers the phone in her room. Her father’s cell phone is elsewhere in the house. Another technological relic. The landline—and to a…
No Escape
Digital Culture and its Discontents