Tag Archives: affect
On Dear Esther
THERE ARE SPOILERS FOR DEAR ESTHER IN THIS POST. As faithful readers will know, I posted a transcript of the Dear Esther trailer and some thoughts about it a while back. I bought the game on release, and I just finished it a … Continue reading
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To The Moon
I woke up this past Saturday and started playing To The Moon. I’ve had it for a while, just sitting on my computer, and in a holiday haze of stormy bullets and biological shocks I kind of let it slip … Continue reading
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The Bioshock Series So Far…
THIS POST HAS SUPER SPOILERS ABOUT THE BIOSHOCK GAMES I played the first two Bioshock games this month in the spirit of Bioshock Infinite coming out sometime in the future. I really liked the games, and I don’t have a … Continue reading
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On Grand Theft Auto IV
I originally bought GTA IV during the fall of my freshman year of college. Most stories that start this way have content like “and I played it until I failed out of five classes” or “it consumed my life.” None of … Continue reading
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Some preliminary Dear Esther remarks
I am excited about Dear Esther coming out next month. It will be a day one purchase for me, and there aren’t a lot of games that hold that kind of weight for me. So this is the trailer for … Continue reading
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Video Games and the Mental Map
This is really just a blippy thing. There is a new tumblr called Mapstalgia that invites readers to submit maps of video games drawn from memory. That sounds pretty boring, but it is actually really amazing. Most of the maps … Continue reading
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Kill Screen 5: The Sound Issue
I always like to get a new issue of Kill Screen in the mail, even when the subject matter isn’t something that I am particularly interested in. The newest issue, which I am only now getting around to really looking … Continue reading
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The Brutal Reality of Affect
I’ll set the scene. I am in the library. I have just wandered around and wrangled a great stack of books that I will be using to write the next section of conference paper that I am working on. I … Continue reading
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On Contagion
I don’t have a lot of things to say about this movie. There are lots of different critiques being deployed in the film–capitalism, certainly, as well as the eating of meat, community, and geopolitics. But what I want to talk … Continue reading
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Current Times 6
1. Brian Massumi talks about disaster and affect. I’ve written on this kind of thing before, and it’s cool to see Massumi doing better work than I ever could. If I could just quote the whole thing here, I would, … Continue reading
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