Category: Videogames
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It’s a Good Life
Everything we do is to make our audiences feel like they’re the most important person in the whole world. And that’s a real good thing.
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So Much Effort
A silly game from Nintendo raises the eternal question: why do LGBT types always make such a fuss every time they’re deliberately and actively excluded?
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Warning: Labels
Why Gone Home isn’t technically a game, why that’s not a bad thing, and why the distinction still matters
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Look Into Your Heart
Animal Crossing: New Leaf brought out the darkest parts of my personality. It’s still better than free-to-play.
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What Nintendon’t
Overcome the overwhelming sense of futility in video games with this one weird trick
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One In a Million
Device 6 is what I imagine all the books on The Island in The Prisoner were like. (In other words: it’s amazing).
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Men Are From World 1-1, Women Are From World 2-2
What we talk about when we talk about female video game characters
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Miss Opportunity
Grand Theft Auto 5, the true death of satire, and giving audiences what you think they want
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Paper Chase
My thoughts on Gone Home and what it reveals about storytelling in video games
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Towards Our Digital Future
The “Xbox 180,” SimCity, and how someone who absolutely abhors software piracy can still think DRM sucks.
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Shadows of the Empire
What I learned from a job at LucasArts fifteen years ago.