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Catherine: Bad Representation Made Worse
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…
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Call of Duty: WWII’s Female Soldier ‘Rousseau’ Deserves Her Own Spin-Off
Call of Duty: WW2 is an awkward game. Its campaign strives to be serious (at one point touching upon the horrors of a concentration camp). On the other hand it offers frenetic multiplayer gameplay and an absurd Nazi Zombie mode. This bizarre juxtaposition has lead to calls for the game’s three distinct modes to get…
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Connection Lost: You Can’t Take It With You
Hello and welcome to article two in the Connection Lost series: You Can’t Take It With You. If you didn’t read the first one, you’d probably be better having a browse of that first, as it will explain a lot about what I am doing. You can find that post at this link. Basically, I’m…
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A Bestiary of Delphic Feels
If you’re yet to read Nathalie Lawhead’s blog on her experiences showcasing interactive zine Everything is Going to be Ok at Day of the Devs, do that thing now, and come back. Yeah, me too. It’s this that got jammed in my craw the hardest: “What the fuck is this, what the hell, weird ass game,…
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Wolfenstein 2: Do Nazi Lives Matter?
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is not a truly great Wolfenstein game, but it feels like a rung on the ladder to one. It carries the franchise’s history like a millstone carved from a beloved pet rock. Unflinchingly self-conscious; at once brazen and apologetic. The Wolfenstein name is both a slashed Achilles heel, and the…
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The Real Women Resistance Fighters that Inspired Call of Duty: WWII
After years of meandering about in modern and futurist space wars, Call of Duty is finally going back to its roots – World War II. Whether this is a response to fan complaints or an answer to Battlefield 1 is a matter for debate. Also in response to EA, Activision and developer Sledgehammer Games have…
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Connection Lost: Major Carnage
Death is something that we all have to deal with at some point in our lives, whether by losing loved ones, pets, or even witnessing something horrific like an accident or an act of violence. We will also end up meeting the Reaper ourselves one day, unless we happen to be the first immortal ever…
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Town of Light Dev’s $10k Take This Donation is Another Win for Mental Health in Gaming
‘Although we’re ok, telling each other about our gaming experiences, we’re not really comfortable talking about ourselves, things we think will make us seem different’ That’s how journalist Susan Ardent introduces the idea behind Take This, a non profit started by herself and fellow writer Russ Pitts. Founded in 2013, the charity seeks to inform…
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Life Goals and Dead by Daylight
The wooden-pallet crashes down, stunning my Killer character and giving the Survivors a chance to scatter like scuttling spiders. I mutter and swear as I destroy the barrier, before setting off in hot pursuit of a straggler. He dodges and weaves incredibly well, managing to lose me in a tangle of hay bales and dilapidated…
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Gone Home: A Four Year Retrospective
I never find myself at home in the horror genre; in fact, I actively stay away from it. Game trailers embroiled with slinky, dark hallways, creepy attics and clues found behind barely open doors are all pointers for me to stay the hell away. So, naturally, I was a bit amiss when I found that…
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Gender at E3: Playstation
The Playstation E3 press conference was a whirlwind of trailer after trailer after trailer, leaving no stage time for anyone except Sony President and CEO Shawn Layden. The games themselves, then, were mixed in every respect. Out of the gate they showed Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, featuring Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross, both women of…
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Gender at E3: Devolver Digital
The Devolver Digital presser was less of a conference and more of a surrealist skit, but it was a surrealist skit with plenty of women in it. Primarily headed up by Nina Struthers’ unblinking comedic presence, she was joined by bit characters like the scientist Margaret as things devolved (hah) into body horror and gore.…
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Diversity in Virtual Reality: The Next Step?
I love VR. I’ve loved being a bird soaring over post-apocalyptic Paris in Eagle Flight, getting up close and personal with a shark in Ocean Descent, and scoring very much over par as a massive robot in 100 Foot Robot Golf. But I also love exploring crafted stories about a wide range of characters. So…
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Safe Spaces For Dark Tasks
Videogames let us do some pretty fucked up things. Sometimes that’s part of their appeal, after all nobody played Postal for its gripping narrative. It was a rampage murder sim that garnered enough of an audience that it was far from the first or last of its kind. Videogames never made us subversive and terrible,…
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Everything in A House of Many Doors is Bizarre, Except Queerness
A House of Many Doors is a recent exploration RPG where everything is fantastical and bizarre, yet queerness is treated as entirely normal. Somewhere among the bandits and eldritch abominations that lurk in the dark, my brave explorer fell in love. She did have a previous relationship with the craft’s navigator, an older woman, full of…
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A Good Bundle Offers 151 Games for $20, Benefits ACLU and Planned Parenthood
A Good Bundle wants to raise money for two very good and very deserving causes. “A bunch of creators are sharing their works to combat some of the ugliness in our world,” explains the bundle’s description, with indie hits such as Gone Home, Proteus, Catlateral Damage and Read Only Memories being sold for absolutely peanuts.…