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Category: Gaming
Playing the Enemy: Shifting Perspectives in The Last Of Us
How The Last Of Us and its sequel ask us to question our allegiances.
The Art of Magic: The Gathering / Nils Hamm
Exploring the game’s master of graveyards.
Kentucky Route Zero and the Desperate Reality of Liminality
Interrogating the in-between of Cardboard Computer’s hazy stories.
Grand Thrash Auto: Jeremy Hunt (QOHELETH)
From childhood favourites to modern mainstays, the QOHELETH artist shows us how impactful games can be.
Cloudpunk and the Illusion of Choice
The city of Nivalis’ staggering size and vivid omnipresence hammer home the game’s overarching feeling of tragedy, of a city in which nothing seems to be going right.
Grim Fandango Is a Perfect Fusion of Film Noir and Detective Novel
A bridge between the analogue past and the digital future, and an example of the homage bettering the original.
A History of Heavy Metal Gaming
A history of the link between video games and metal.
Grand Thrash Auto: Liam Pendlebury-Green (Boss Keloid)
The prog-doom bassist on why gaming has always been a big part of his life.
Returnal is Spinning in the New Weird
Housemarque’s science-fiction thriller takes a walk through the unknowable.