Search results for: “life is strange”
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Death Stranding Finds Hope in Despair
In a world filled with nightmares, Death Stranding still manages to show us a path forward.
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Why Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete Remains One of the Best JRPGs Ever
Twenty years ago, a cute little Japanese RPG became a beacon of hope in Final Fantasy VII’s long shadow.
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Bee Simulator impressions
It’s hard for me to explain just how strange playing Bee Simulator can be, especially as it flew further and further away from the expectations I had going in.
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How a GameFAQs Board Became a Refuge for the Brokenhearted
There’s no ASCII walkthrough for love.
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The Guilty Pleasures of Video Game Violence Are a Mirror for Our Consumerist Nightmare
In Hotline Miami, Katana Zero, My Friend Pedro, and real life, doing bad things is your fault—even when it isn’t.
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What Science and Philosophy Teach Us About the Dream World of Link’s Awakening
The fate of Koholint doesn’t have to be tragic or meaningless.
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VA-11 Hall-A, N1RV Ann-A, and the Struggle to Create in a Country on the Brink
For Sukeban Games, the crisis in Venezuela provided both unimaginable difficulty and inspiration.
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The Split-Screen Man
Billy Mitchell isn’t done playing games.
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Pleasure to Burn: Why Campfires Are so Ubiquitous in Games
Who knew some flaming sticks could be imbued with this much meaning?
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To Make Later Alligator, Smallbu Had to Wrestle with Game Design
The animators behind the Baman Piderman cartoons faced new challenges translating their skills to gamemaking.
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The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening review
The remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is stuck between two places—the past and the present.
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Too Big to Bail: Why Dead Cells’ Creators Built an Evil Empire
The indie hit is handing off development to a new studio. Could it become a template for moving forward in a changing industry?