The world is tough but this year’s video games were pretty freakin’ awesome so let’s just dig in.
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Pyre's Clear Voice in the American Resistance
Supergiant's latest is the first game to show us the power of resistance in Trump's America.
Read MoreHamilton, Hitman, and the Power of the Temporary
As consumers and purveyors of media, we are living in a golden yet spoiled age of consumption. We’re both lucky and cursed by how easy enjoying stories is, yet every once in a while we are reminded of the immediacy and power of temporary art.
Read MoreThe Awesomely Normal Women of "Uncharted 4"
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.
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.
Read MoreVolume: The Revolution Will Be Televised
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.
Read MoreA Reflection on Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number and the Nature of Violence in Entertainment
I have no idea what just happened. I popped a few pills and all of a sudden the world went psychedelic.
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