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Joe KöllerA Different DOTA: Forgotten Game Modes of Warcraft 3The rise of MOBAs as one of the dominant esports formats has brought a lot of critical attention to the origins of the genre, a history…Nov 19, 2017Nov 19, 2017
Adam Page“My Life Didn’t Begin Until The World Ended” — Sunset Overdrive and the post-apocalyptic identitySunset Overdrive is the kind of game we don’t get anymore despite the fact that Fortnite, the biggest game in the world right now, bears…Nov 29, 2018Nov 29, 2018
RecusantKingdom Hearts and the Interminable SurfaceOr, what do we lose when the barrier to subtext is the text?Dec 20, 2021
luke wYou Can’t Go Home Again: An Analysis of Resident Evil VIII’m comin’ home, I’ve done my time Now I’ve got to know what is and isn’t mine If you received my letter telling you I’d soon be free Then…Sep 23, 20181
RaelleinVista MagazineForager is a Capitalism Simulator Without ConsequenceIs Capitalism a Skill? What happens when you level up?Sep 7, 2020
Joe KöllerA Different DOTA: Forgotten Game Modes of Warcraft 3The rise of MOBAs as one of the dominant esports formats has brought a lot of critical attention to the origins of the genre, a history…Nov 19, 2017
Adam Page“My Life Didn’t Begin Until The World Ended” — Sunset Overdrive and the post-apocalyptic identitySunset Overdrive is the kind of game we don’t get anymore despite the fact that Fortnite, the biggest game in the world right now, bears…Nov 29, 2018
Fern Opal DrewExploitation and Rapture, how Bioshock Represents Capitalists and WorkersThe value I find in the once heralded Citizen Kane of Video Games is tasteless, reflexive catharsis. There’s a special kind of thrill in…Sep 1, 20172
Fern Opal DrewinZEALHold my Beer — Why the Torment Games Have the Best Video Game Bars[This essay was funded through Patreon under the ZEAL project. ZEAL aims to provide high quality criticism of rarely discussed games and…Jul 14, 2017
Stephen WinsonThe Long DarkIt is with no small amount of irony that to escape from the exceedingly depressing drumbeat of the Trump administration I have turned to a…Apr 16, 2017