As a leading art form, video games can be – and should be – used to convey more than entertainment. Just as film and television have documentaries and writing has non-fiction, video games offer an opportunity to share real and important stories. Indeed, the interactive nature of games, and the…
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As anyone that follows me on Twitter knows, it’s not just that I just have an interest in politics, but I’m also quite certain that politics in the world is fundamentally broken. In most countries around the world, the political sphere is dominated by two or three neoliberal parties that…
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Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree is Norse mythology-inspired rhythm combat RPG by a developer in New Zealand, a publisher in Poland, and a composer from Australia. Talk about worldly! The story-driven game has been available on Apple Arcade since September 2019, but it’s now set to also be released…
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I’m going to start this by being very upfront: before playing Wylde Flowers for PC, I played it through on Apple Arcade. Twice. I legitimately spent dozens of hours in the cozy world created by Studio Drydock. Despite that, after booting the new Switch version up and seeing the camera…
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Dating is hard. First you have to meet someone you’re at least vaguely attracted to in some sense. Then there’s the awkward first date, the one where neither party knows whether or not they should kiss if it goes well so they just make weird eyes at each other before…
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The content warnings for Immortality are plenty. It includes everything from swearing and blasphemy to incest and murder. No content warnings would scare me off this game, let alone ones that basically contain the features of any V.C. Andrews novel. Immortality may have only been announced last year, but it…
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Religion is one of those topics you’re never meant to discuss in polite society. When it comes to video games, it’s one that’s historically either been airbrushed out of games to avoid offence, or dealt with in very broad brush strokes to define it away from existing real-world religious groups.…
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This excitingly innovative open-world multiplayer puzzle game has the potential to do more than its fair share of rounds when it releases in 2023! Although the name is subject to change, Project S has been officially announced, and is currently available to wishlist on Steam. The announcement comes as a…
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We should be talking a lot more about The Dragoness: Command Of The Flame, because it taps into something that we don’t see nearly enough of anymore. It’s releasing in September, and from what I’ve been playing of it, it’s excellent. The lack of chatter about it leaves me worried…
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A few weeks ago, Qureate, a video game publisher and developer based in Tokyo, and a fine purveyor of the smuttiest of fan service, announced Massage Freaks, a rhythm game that was all about touching big-boobed girls all over in time to the music. That game has now been renamed…
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