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Tag Archives: video games
On One With Nature
It’s a small game that makes a small argument, if there’s even an argument at all, but it’s beautifully constructed. It lures you in with the promise that there is always going to be something deeper, but eventually there isn’t. One … Continue reading
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Tagged nonhumans, one with nature, video games
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Playing Defense in the Battle for Zendikar
The newest Magic the Gathering set, Battle for Zendikar, will go into prerelease this weekend. What that means, if you aren’t in the know, is that people will be able to go to events and play with the cards of the … Continue reading
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Tagged battle for zendikar, magic the gathering, video games, zendikar
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Syndicate video – part 1
Danni and I played a little bit of Syndicate. The game often feels as if I am piloting a giant stick of butter.
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On Chainmail Bikini
Chainmail Bikini is a collection of short comics written by women around the topic of videogames. That sentence, on face, doesn’t seem very radical, and when I backed CB on kickstarter, I didn’t take it as some kind of radical political project. … Continue reading
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Tagged chainmail bikini, comics, hazel newlevant, video games
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Until Dawn Review at Paste
“You make choices and the choices matter” has been the bugbear phrase of videogames for twenty years. Giving players narrative options that actually pan out into their own unique scenarios has been promised by many games, and when it has … Continue reading
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Tagged paste magazine, review, until dawn, video games
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We Played Fuse (conclusion)
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Tagged fuse, let's play, video games
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We Played Fuse For A While (part 1!)
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Tagged danni, fuse, gaming, video games
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Bulletstorm, Narrative, and Satire
Today I released a video about Bulletstorm, a game that I have been trying to write about for years now. In all seriousness, I have a draft of an essay on the backend of this blog that’s probably been languishing for … Continue reading
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Tagged bulletstorm, epic megagames, player/knowledge, video games, videogames
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Robert Yang on Bodies
A ragdoll is an awkward body in flux that we share with the game engine, whose every movement is unknowable and unpredictable and must be negotiated. Even the most realistic motion capture cannot compete with this kind of truth. Our … Continue reading
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Tagged bodies, ragdoll, robert yang, theory, video games
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this cage is worms 