Tag: Video Games
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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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‘The Singer’s Voice Was Honey-love’ — Gitaroo Man Review
In some ways, it’s miraculous that Gitaroo Man was released in Western territories at all. An anime rhythm game in which you battle an axe-wielding demon, aliens, and a giant robot hammerhead shark (to excellent dub-reggae, no less) seems an odd choice for localisation — something you can imagine would have been rejected by publishers on grounds of…
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The Game Awards 2021 or: How Psychonauts 2 Deserved Better
Taking a cursory glance at the nominees for game of the year at The Game Awards 2021, you may be mistaken in thinking that you’ve stepped back in time about twenty-five years or so. Out of the six nominated video games this year four of them were platformers, and three of them were 3D platformers…
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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…
Gamer! Beware! 