Grab a drink, snuggle up, and join Adi as he goes through his top video games, books, movies, and more from this year.
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Grab a drink, snuggle up, and join Adi and a very special guest as we go through his top video games and books this year.
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Grab a drink, snuggle up, and let’s go through my top video games and books that I consumed during this wild year.
Read MoreAdi's Top 10 Games and Books of 2020
2020 was a year and it happened. Here’s some books and games that got me through it. Enjoy!
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Read MoreAdi's Top 10 Games and Books of 2019
There were a bunch of games and books that I really loved this year, so why not write about them? Here is that piece of writing!
Read MoreAdi's Top 10 Games of 2018
The world is tough but this year’s video games were pretty freakin’ awesome so let’s just dig in.
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2017 was rough. These video games made it better.
Read MoreHamilton, Hitman, and the Power of the Temporary
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Read MoreAdi's Top Ten Games of 2016
2016 was one of the best and worst year of my life. I saw my country fall into the hands of bigots and xenophobes but I also married the love of my life. How the hell is this possible? How can one year be filled with such polar opposites? We could analyze those questions and the pros and cons of 2016 for the next five hundred years, but you didn’t come here to read that. You came here to read some awesome games and, hell, that’s what you’re gonna get. Because no matter how you felt about this year, it was a really great one of video games and I am beyond grateful for that. This year gaming provided new insights and stories, played with new mechanics and visual styles, and fine tuned some of my favorite franchises. I met new characters and got to hang out with old favorites. I gained new perspectives about profoundly difficult subjects while still laughing with friends during all night play sessions. So without anymore filler, here you go: My top ten games of 2016. Enjoy!
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The most interesting and ultimately upsetting part of No Man’s Sky is its white imperialist idea of “discovery.”
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What Uncharted 4 does most successfully is normalize the power and strength of women.
Read More"The Division" A.K.A. How I Learned to Love Mediocrity
As I’m wandering through an abandoned, dying New York I stumble across a small group of people. It’s a pair, actually, huddled over what looks like a dead body.
Read MoreWitnessing a Patience Renaissance
My relationship with The Witness is... tumultuous.
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That Dragon, Cancer tells the deeply personal story of the Green family and their journey through the life of their now deceased son, Joel.
Read MoreAdi's Top 10 Games of 2015
2015 was a great year for gaming. The newest generation of consoles has finally started coming into its own, game genres are broadening and reforming, and now those who play video games have more diverse options than ever. We saw great sequels, amazing new IPs, and finally saw the fruits of a few long promised Kickstarters. I was lucky to be able to play a lot of games in 2015 andI loved so much of what I played that I decided to make a Top 10 list. So here you go! Enjoy.
Read More"Undertale" and the Post-Modern Narrative
Undertale is the first truly post-modern video game. This is the bold pronouncement I read in a forum thread as I was considering picking it up, and well...as a pretentious nerd always desperate to lend some intellectual legitimacy to my untold hours sacrificed at the altar of video games, how could I say no? 10 dollars and 8 total hours later and I will go one further: Undertale is one of the most important games to be made in the past decade.
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On the eve of the launch of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain I find myself lost and confused in a mess of excitement that I feel no part off.
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