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Personal stories that celebrate gaming culture.

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A Bootstrap Pory-dox

What if Kotaro Uchikoshi had written Pokemon Legends: Arceus?

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Gore, Faces, and the Conundrum of Censorship

A brief look at the history of visual repulsion

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A Mass Effect TV Adaptation Must Be OK With Disappointing Fans

How do you adapt a title where each player has a unique experience? By disappointing a lot of people.

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Vampire Survivors: A Study of an Indie Phenomenon

Exploring and understanding the indie game that everyone’s talking about

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Nier Automata Explores “2B or Not 2B” but Doesn’t Provide an Answer

Yoko Taro’s nihilist painting of the future, featuring hope

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Four Years Later, Destiny 2 is Still Worth Your Time

Destiny 2 has struggled to find its place in the four years since release; but its time has finally come

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The Steam Deck Represents the Next Age in Linux Gaming

Could this be the boost that Linux gaming needs?

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One in a Mili-on

Westerners are missing out on one of the most unique sounds in gaming

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The NieR Games Are Singularly Brilliant...But They're Not Replayable

Ah, to play these games for the first time again…

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Fire Emblem Games That Could Use an Echoes-Style Remake

Giving these games the same treatment as 2017’s Shadows of Valentia could do a world of good

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I Don’t Feel Guilty About Skipping Dark Souls II Before Elden Ring

Some thoughts on FromSoftware's sophomore slump

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Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Fixes a Huge Exploration Problem

Finding a solution to a thorny issue

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Footsteps Through the BrAIn: Ludonarrative Memory

Storytelling through an unreliable mind

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Liminality in the Halo Universe

The Truth and Reconciliation

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It's Time for a New Matrix Video Game

The technology — and techniques — now exist to make it truly possible

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Sea of Thieves: Friendship, Folly, and Freedom

“Playing to win is a loss. Losing for fun is a win.”

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With Halo Infinite, Smart Has Become the New Spectacular

Doing Halo better than ever before

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An Ode to Heroes of Might and Magic III

The classics never truly leave us

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The Unsinkable Team Fortress 2

Valve’s team-based FPS has outlasted a lot of competitors — but what comes next?

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Humanizing Sephiroth

How the FFVII Remake can continue to flesh out the infamous one-winged angel with one scene

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Masochism in the Bayou

Hunt: Showdown almost paralyses me with fear, but I can’t get enough

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How Playing Picross Has Forced Me To Re-Examine My Manuscript

The addictive nonogram puzzler is a bountiful insight for writing a novel

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Yakuza 0 Has Two Brilliant Fight Songs

Although reserved to side content, these fight songs give you more than just an adrenaline rush

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How Unions Could Heal a Sick Gaming Industry

Game development is a labor rights issue

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When Mass Effect Neutered the Reapers, and We Didn’t Care

Why world-building and narrative supersede inconsistency in the message