Tag: Gaming
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The Gamer! Beware! Very Official 2021 Game Awards (Part 2)
In this continuation of the Gamer! Beware! 2021 Awards I reveal my unabashed love for Final Fantasy and sheer inability to finish a game I don’t like. Best Replay of 2021 — Final Fantasy VIII Reexperiencing video games can be an invaluable time investment and, as much as I try to limit the number of titles I replay,…
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The Gamer! Beware! Very Official 2021 Game Awards (Part 1)
Let’s begin this little piece with the most inoffensive, generalised statement possible; 2021 was a pretty good year for video games. Was it any better or worse than previous years? No, not really — every year is a pretty good year for video games. 2021 saw a lot of Triple-A first-person shooters (as usual), a smattering of…
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Learning to Love Dishonored
I first played Arkane’s 2012 ‘immersive sim’ Dishonored about a year after its initial release at the tail end of 2013. I acquired it in a relatively gruesome two-for fifteen pounds deal at the Churchill Square Shopping Centre Game store in Brighton, along with the (frankly terrible) DmC: Devil May Cry. I experienced the first…
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Five of the Best YouTube Video Game Essays
The long-form YouTube video game essay has seen a meteoric rise in popularity over the past four to five years. What was, initially, a niche, enthusiast-only format, is now the vehicle for some of the most popular video game related content available online. There is a very strong chance that your favourite game will have (at…
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