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  • Local Spotlight: GoldFire Studios

    Aug 4

    OKC-Based Video Game Developer Works on Making Games and Growing Community During COVID-19

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  • GamesBeat shows us how not to write about video game corporations in the middle of discrimination and harassment lawsuits

    Jul 31

    When a company gets sued by a state government because they foster a fundamentally dangerous workplace to anyone who isn’t straight, cisgender, white, or male, it’s not a business writer’s job to tell them how to maneuver the choppy waves.

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  • Umurangi Generation, Spoiled (Part 2)

    Jun 27

    Umurangi Generation lives in the world of reproduction. The true reason why nobody impedes our movement is because we are meant to exist in the diorama of each level as though time stood still and we were the only ones…

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  • The Article Where I Talk About Umurangi Generation In Full Detail (Total F*ckin Spoilers Ahead), Part One

    Jun 23

    Hello. This is part one of an article about Umurangi Generation, my favorite game in 2020 and probably the best game that came out in that whole year, cinematic storytelling and painstakingly-crafted 3D animations be damned. I liked the game…

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  • “Ordinary Life” Opens Hot Trans Ska Summer With a Bang

    Jun 4

    I’m by no means ashamed to admit that I have cried reliably every single time I’ve listened to this album.

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  • ‘World’s End Club’ is a mess, but I love it

    May 31

    It’s not good, but it’s not bad. It’s not “so bad it’s good.” It’s also not unplayable. I have no regrets.

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  • ‘Discolored’ is a quick and breezy puzzle box with aspirations toward creepiness

    May 30

    ‘Discolored’ is enjoyable for what it is, a simple first-person puzzler designed to be finished in under two hours.

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  • Review: Genesis Noir

    May 30

    Genesis Noir (Feral Cat Den, 2021 – Xbox Series S) reframes the Big Bang – and subsequently, the human creation myth – as a jazz-infused noir mystery tale. This framing mostly works, aside from a moment of jarring tone shift…

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  • ‘Adios’ might have a way with words, but it’s the silence that comes through the strongest

    May 18

    The most striking thing about Mischief’s Adios (Xbox, 2021) isn’t the existentialist drama by way of shooting the shit about farming, the Vietnam War or “utility coupes.” It’s the silence of your last rites.

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