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You never climb alone
The first time my hand slipped, it wasn’t spectacular. No screams. No dramatic music. Just one finger giving way, almost imperceptibly, then another searching for a hold that wasn’t there. In Cairn,…
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Malte Burup, creative director of Death Howl
With Malte Burup, video games are not simply objects of entertainment. Founder of The Outer Zone studio, former comic book author and children’s illustrator, Malte has spent years building a coherent body…
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Interview with the team behind Gamevestor, the new crowdfunding platform for video games
At the crossroads of video games, finance, and profound changes in the industry, Gamevestor presents itself as an attempt to respond to a now widely shared concern: solid projects, led by experienced…
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Emeric Thoa, creative director on Cairn
After Haven, a weightless romance game designed as an intimate bubble for two, the members of The Game Bakers studio are taking everyone by surprise with Cairn, a harsh, vertical, and demanding…
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Weird games facing censorship: the case of Horses and the silent purge
The scene is almost absurd: it’s the day before the launch of Horses on the Epic Games Store. Two years of work, $100,000 invested, an Italian studio, Santa Ragione, literally staking its…
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Museums of the Non-Existent: From Dune to MyHouse.wad
We no longer consume works: we inhabit gaps. Cancelled projects, fragments, hoaxes, mod-labyrinths, and fake books shift the center of gravity of the experience: there is no longer an object to finish,…
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A New Bloom with Silent Hill f: Interview with NeoBards
With Silent Hill f, NeoBards Entertainment delivers not only an unexpected shift for the saga, but also one of the most intriguing bets in recent years: transposing Silent Hill’s dread into the…
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The Revolutions of Mr. Robot
00_meta eps0.0_readme_thesis.md Mr. Robot does not seek to mimic our contemporary fears. The series shapes them in order to repair them. Beneath its techno-thriller exterior, it unfolds a protocol for healing: the…
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Sam Barlow’s Fragments of Truth
Like a film director, Sam Barlow manipulates the codes of video games to explore new forms of storytelling. He is notably the creator of a trilogy of atypical games, Her Story (2015),…
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In the orbit of MIO: immersion at Douze Dixièmes
A few weeks ago, I stepped through the doors of the Douze Dixièmes studio, tucked away in a quiet corner of the capital. For several years, the team has been refining an…