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  • Two Games, Two Lives, Two Approaches to Environmental Storytelling

    Mar 7

    Possessions (2019, Noodlecake, Apple Arcade) and Unpacking (2021, Witch Beam, Xbox Game Pass) share quite a few surface similarities. Each game is defined primarily by its colorful aesthetics. You rarely, if ever, see the subjects of the game’s story, just…

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  • Who Remembers Bacon’s Rebellion? Meatpunk at a Glance

    Mar 7

    Alvin Meatman reflects on what makes meatpunk as a genre special to them.

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  • Uh-oh! Stormblood’s Politics are Kinda Bad!

    Feb 21

    Everyone told me to expect the worst. I didn’t believe them. Welp.

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  • Boy I sure do wish I could get excited about Destiny 2!!!

    Feb 15

    With a week left, I’m struggling to muster the enthusiasm for Witch Queen

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  • The Anarchy of Play

    Feb 6

    We need to be able to imagine that a better world is possible, and even more importantly, we need to be able to imagine what those better worlds might look like, and how we might get there.

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  • Dirt Rally Is a Horror Game

    Jan 30

    Seriously. DO NOT CUT.

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  • The Soul of Place: My Favorite Dark Souls Sites

    Jan 8

    We may not recall that, once, the word mystery described a secret rite.

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  • Dungeon Encounters rocks. Too bad Square-Enix didn’t market it

    Jan 6

    Dungeon Encounters is an epoch-defining RPG that could usher in a new era of shared player-generated mythmaking, if Square-Enix wasn’t so horny for NFTs.

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  • Descending the Lighthouse

    Dec 30

    Roses are red. Violence is too.

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