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How You Got Videogames Wrong: Your Brain is a Bad Game

Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames). This month, a three-part series that seeks to comprehend your comprehending.   INTRO Here’s

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How You Got Videogames Wrong: Your Brain is a Bad Game

Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames). This month, a three-part series that seeks to comprehend your comprehending.   INTRO Here’s

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How You Got Videogames Wrong: It's All Consequential

    I have a friend who failed Journey. …Improbable, right? Thatgamecompany’s 2012 critical darling may be known for a lot of things, but failability ain’t one of ’em. Yet still this friend-o’mine–let’s call him Kevin, cuz that’s his name–did

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How You Got Videogames Wrong: It's All Consequential

    I have a friend who failed Journey. …Improbable, right? Thatgamecompany’s 2012 critical darling may be known for a lot of things, but failability ain’t one of ’em. Yet still this friend-o’mine–let’s call him Kevin, cuz that’s his name–did

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REVIEW TO THE DEATH: Analogue: A Hate Story  vs. Super Deep Throat

    Cut to the chase and call Analogue: A Hate Story and Super Deep Throat companion pieces. The first, Christine Love’s newest femi-techno product o’ praise; the second, a game about having sex with women’s mouths. Yet, despite this

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REVIEW TO THE DEATH: Analogue: A Hate Story  vs. Super Deep Throat

    Cut to the chase and call Analogue: A Hate Story and Super Deep Throat companion pieces. The first, Christine Love’s newest femi-techno product o’ praise; the second, a game about having sex with women’s mouths. Yet, despite this

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Art Game Thunderdome: The Great Gatsby

It was a cool name with no meaning: Art Game Thunderdome. I had thought the fact that my short-lived video series dealt with hypothetical art games in a rough and tumble manner might justify the title…but ultimately the name was

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Art Game Thunderdome: The Great Gatsby

It was a cool name with no meaning: Art Game Thunderdome. I had thought the fact that my short-lived video series dealt with hypothetical art games in a rough and tumble manner might justify the title…but ultimately the name was

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Nioki Adventure: An Interview with Marc Lejeune

  When I hear the words “Paris” and “companionship,” I don’t think of videogames: I think of the woman I met in Charles de Gaulle whom I would follow to Poland and lose my virginity to in a converted occupation-era

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Nioki Adventure: An Interview with Marc Lejeune

  When I hear the words “Paris” and “companionship,” I don’t think of videogames: I think of the woman I met in Charles de Gaulle whom I would follow to Poland and lose my virginity to in a converted occupation-era

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How You Got Videogames Wrong: …And film…and music…and literature…etc.

Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames). This month we’ll be looking at “Show, don’t tell”—and how it might not mean

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How You Got Videogames Wrong: …And film…and music…and literature…etc.

Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames). This month we’ll be looking at “Show, don’t tell”—and how it might not mean

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Sine Mora – XBLA Review

Shoot ‘em ups—in my mind—have always been games about sex. It’s not the phallic imagery. Nor is it the screenfuls of bullet-semen. And while the pacing is often frantic, frenzied, down and dirty even, I can’t say that it’s more

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Sine Mora – XBLA Review

Shoot ‘em ups—in my mind—have always been games about sex. It’s not the phallic imagery. Nor is it the screenfuls of bullet-semen. And while the pacing is often frantic, frenzied, down and dirty even, I can’t say that it’s more

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How You Got Videogames Wrong #4: "Your Games Just Suck"

Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames).  This month we’ll be looking how ideas change, and how we should be careful

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How You Got Videogames Wrong #4: "Your Games Just Suck"

Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames).  This month we’ll be looking how ideas change, and how we should be careful

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ART GAME THUNDERDOME

EPISODE ONE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

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ART GAME THUNDERDOME

EPISODE ONE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

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How You Got Videogames Wrong #3: You’re Pretentious as Shit

Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames).  This month we’ll be looking at difficulty in games, and what exactly it makes

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How You Got Videogames Wrong #3: You’re Pretentious as Shit

Pissing you off in installments, the monthly series “How You Got Videogames Wrong” delves beyond appearances into the slimy interior of The God’s Truth (about videogames).  This month we’ll be looking at difficulty in games, and what exactly it makes

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