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Ignoring New Games as a Means of Resistance
On the “Great Tech Pause” and other such avenues of consumer empowerment
Aug 12 • Trip Harrison
How I Roleplay in Singleplayer RPGs
Plus, hungrily anticipating the forthcoming Tamriel Rebuilt expansion
Aug 6 • Trip Harrison
Plummeting from Orbit as a Creative Exercise
Dispatches from my first-ever Game Jam
Jul 30 • Trip Harrison
The Culture-Positive Promise of Game Jams
Game Jams and their skyrocketing popularity bode well for the extraprofessional games industry
Jul 23 • Trip Harrison
Obsidian Can Still Make a Great Fallout Game
Corporate leadership just has to let them cook, but that's far from guaranteed.
Jul 16 • Trip Harrison
The Neil Breen Film of Assassination Games
REVIEW: Laina Interactive’s The Slater (2018)
Jul 9 • Trip Harrison
Hotline Miami Somehow Got Even Better
Hotline Miami: Super Redux-Redux is another much-needed cause for hope in a punished games industry.
Jul 1 • Trip Harrison
OpenMW and the Future of Western RPG Design
Morrowind modding as a rare source of optimism in the modern games industry
Jun 25 • Trip Harrison
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Incautiously probing the artistic horizons of game design.
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