Perspective
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Journey to the Savage Planet Can Help Us Rethink Satire in Games
Cashing in on criticism.
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How Dreams Taught Me to Embrace Failure
Learning to value my mistakes freed me as an artist.
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Ten Years Later, Bad Company 2 Is Still the Best of All of Us
There will never be another game like Battlfield: Bad Company 2 ever again.
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The Constructed Murk of War: 1917, Battlefield 1, and This War of Mine
What depictions of warfare, rendered as entertainment, teach us through their visual language.
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In My Waking Life
Red Dead Redemption 2 made me confront, in more ways than one, my connection to the myth of the American West.
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Complex Control System: Science as the Master Manipulator in Remedy’s Control
“So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.”
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On Killing Hitler
How series like Wolfenstein, Zombie Army, and Sniper Elite handle the revenge fantasy of bringing Hitler to justice.
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I Hatched 1,600 Eggs for a Shiny Pokémon and Immediately Gave It Away
What I got in return didn’t matter.
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Girl Meets Yakuza 5: How Haruka Brings a Feminine Touch to a Macho World
A Princess League of her own.
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With Its Final Act, Kentucky Route Zero Became a Haunting, Literary Elegy
Looking back from the end of the road.
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Games Are Discovering an Expressive New Tool: Internet Grammar
How do you pronounce “sdkjflsdkf”?
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Outer Wilds Helped Me Confront the Inevitability of Death
Time and space.