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Ever notice how sometimes you’ll post comment on New Normative and it just seems to disappear? Let me clarify a few things via our recently updated comment policy. You’ve probably spent some time on the internet before, so you know it can be full of angry and abusive people. This goes doubly so for comment…

We all grew up gaming but some of us grew up overweight. As we all know, an immersive experience in a game can be a liberating one, it’s escapism. A lot of the time its much needed. Every so often though, we all need a nudge to remind us that it’s okay to be who you…

 You read the title right. Let’s get down to it. Fang I’m sorry city folks, but I’ve got a thing for bad boys and I’m hungry for this wolf. He may give me the cold shoulder, but I can’t stop chasing his tail. Fauna I just want to be her dearie. The Thumper to her…

“Dear game devs You’re probably not going to like how I play your game.” When I asked Gametographer SpiffSnaps to write something that he felt summed up his Horizon Zero Dawn shots, this is how it started. Lost World “My screenshot posts should come with that disclaimer. I know you, the game dev, have spent years…

As I type this now, I’m listening to Valley of the Fallen Star – The Cosmo Canyon theme from Final Fantasy VII. Composer Nobou Uematsa‘s original arrangement is my favourite piece of music from a game I love. One of my favourite tracks from a videogame, in fact. Valley is perfect not only for what it is…

Back in 2016 Overwatch was marketed as the FPS for everyone. The game featured racial and ethnic diversity far beyond most other first-person shooters. Beyond that, it was a game casual and hardcore gamers could enjoy. This marketing scheme has been an enormous success with Overwatch selling over 35 million copies as of October. But…

Catherine is getting a remake and adding new content, which sounds really cool considering it’s an additional storyline. The mood is soured when you remember how transphobic Catherine is, and it looks like it’s being made worse with the addition of this new storyline. The new story involves Rin a new romance option for the lead…

Is your teen dangerously obsessed with the Dark Souls Remaster? Learn the telltale signs of addiction…

Overwatch finally sent me a notification telling me that my reports led to some action taken against a player. It’s been 20 months since the game’s release, and one since the notification system was patched in, and finally, finally, I have some sense that the reporting system might actually be doing something. Here’s the message.…

The first season of the Blizzard-hosted eSports tournament) Overwatch League has now begun. With it, hundreds of skins based on each League team’s colors are available for players to unlock in-game. You get one free, but the rest will cost you. When players unlock one of these Overwatch League skins, the game will play a…

Infinite Fall’s Night in the Woods has crimed its way into our hearts since its release early last year, even more so with December’s Weird Autumn edition. It’s also gained a whole taco truck full of attention at the upcoming IGF awards, pawing nominations for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence in Visual Art, and Excellence in Narrative…

The modern gamer is a thrifty one, and with good reason. Discounts and bargains have become more commonplace in recent years. It should be no surprise then that crafty gamers have discovered a way to exploit Nintendo’s region-free policies on the Switch’s eShop. 

To those in the gaming community at large; let’s be frank about the Logan Paul controversy. After creating a Vlog which showed him and some friends reacting to the body of a suicide victim in Japan’s Aokigahara, better known as the Suicide Forest in popular culture, there was a much deserved blacklash against Paul and…

There are three main things you have to know about Butterfly Soup, 1) It’s very, very gay, 2) It’s also very, very bi, and 3) it knows how to do representation very, very well. The creator of the visual novel, Brianna Lei, describes the game as “A game about gay Asian girls playing baseball and…

As we all know, literature is the enemy. Real games journalists can’t read, fool. Real games journalists scream at you to smash that marshallow-fellating like button until your mouse clicking finger dissolves in a haze of sizzling hot takes about how games companies – get this – occasionally make decisions based on their profitability. Boom. Corruption…

Welcome to another instalment of Connection Lost. It’s a series that uses games as some kind of digital mirror, using them to shine a light on the feelings about death that many of us keep squeezed down tight in the pickle jar of our subconscious. Who Wants to Live Forever? looks at games in which…