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The corporate overlords at IGN made a decision to override their editorial team, and this will have a chilling effect on media to do their jobs effectively.
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In solidarity with the IGN Editorial Staff (and in the spirit of wishing to provide a resource for people to lend mutual aid to Palestine), I am mirroring their original statement, which you can find in this post.
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It’s been almost three weeks since I posted my most recent review on Disco Elysium, and just two weeks since we posted Braden Timss’ review of A Play of Bodies. Since then No Escape has been silent. Does that mean…
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A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames by Brendan Keogh MIT Press April 2018 9780262037631
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Disco Elysium presents a complicated story about a cop on the precipice of redemption and ruin. What does it have to say about policing in general?
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Disco Elysium is complex enough, narratively speaking, that no two playthroughs of the game are exactly alike. A great deal of the decisions and possible narrative paths are decided by dice rolls and skill checks, to the point where it’s…
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Fantasian is good, but has some issues. Is it worth playing, especially if you don’t already have Apple Arcade?
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Balan Wonderworld, a new game from former Sonic Team leaders Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima and published by Square Enix, hasn’t been getting very good critical reception. For my part, I played the demo and bounced off of it, but…
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Writing in year 2 of a pandemic is hard, actually
No Escape
Digital Culture and its Discontents