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Small Boxes: The Silent Poetry of Unpacking

How Unpacking transforms cardboard boxes into profound storytelling about identity, belonging, and queer love through wordless environmental narrative.

The Beautiful Disaster: Why B-games are essential to gaming as art

Somewhere between the pixel-perfect polish of AAA blockbusters and the raw sincerity of indie games lies a forgotten space — the middle space. It’s where ambition meets limitation, where games dare to be too strange, too sincere, too flawed to fit the mold. These ar…

Some Roads Only Lead Underground

There is a highway beneath Kentucky where debt becomes geography. A forest in Pennsylvania where communities hunt their own children to keep their dreams alive.”

Video games aren’t just entertainment—they’re cartographers of America’s invisible mythologies.
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“GAMES ARE A SERIES OF INTERESTING CHOICES”

-Sid Meier-

 

In-game image from Far Cry 5 of a man fishing with his dog watching.

Far Cry 5 – Refusing its own politics

Far Cry 5 – Refusing its own politicsby Thomas Grønvoll | Jan 7, 2024 | 0 commentsFar Cry 5 (Ubisoft Montreal & Ubisoft Toronto, 2018) gives the Far Cry series a well-deserved break from colonial and oriental tropes about the savage barbarians and the western…

On the Harry Potter legacy

On the Harry Potter legacy

On the Harry Potter legacyby Thomas Grønvoll | Feb 17, 2023 | 0 commentsHogwarts Legacy has become a rallying point for transphobia to such a degree it is impossible to view it without this context, and I, in the same way I try to avoid the rest of Rowlings works…

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