Category: Videogames
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?
Warning: Labels
Why Gone Home isn’t technically a game, why that’s not a bad thing, and why the distinction still matters
Look Into Your Heart
Animal Crossing: New Leaf brought out the darkest parts of my personality. It’s still better than free-to-play.
What Nintendon’t
Overcome the overwhelming sense of futility in video games with this one weird trick
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).
Men Are From World 1-1, Women Are From World 2-2
What we talk about when we talk about female video game characters
Miss Opportunity
Grand Theft Auto 5, the true death of satire, and giving audiences what you think they want
Towards Our Digital Future
The “Xbox 180,” SimCity, and how someone who absolutely abhors software piracy can still think DRM sucks.
