The Sublime in Video Games
SPOILER ALERT You may recognize yourself in these words, but I find that the sense of melancholy we feel when we feel tiny is both distressing, you’ll agree, and yet comforting… An…
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Emptiness and nothingness
“Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.” – Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley The concept of space is intrinsically…
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Cute but what else ? A Capybara’s case study – Game of Faune
Have you heard of Bonnie and Clyde? The famous outlaws who sneaked out of… the Toronto Zoo? Because Bonnie and Clyde aren’t just the famous outlaws who terrorized and captivated 1930s America.…
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The Blood of Dawnwalker : Dawn or Dusk in Video Games ?
Warning: This text contains plot spoilers for the following games >The Blood of Dawnwalker (surprise)The Witcher III: Wild HuntCyberpunk 2077 I. Introduction Once the prologue in Whiteflower is complete, The Witcher III:…
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Behind the Scenes of Final Fantasy VIII: How Absence Fuels the Story
Final Fantasy VIII. A game that’s too strange—paradoxically too baroque and too modern at the same time, too haunting and too epic, too fantastical and too realistic. In short, a game that’s…
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Interview with Louis Waloschek, creator of “Gecko Gods” – Game of Faune
Five years ago, I discovered « The Gecko Gods ». I was immediately charmed by the concept of a compact and tiny open world, halfway between « The Wind Waker » and « Tchia » – a game…
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The White Walls
Imagine an apartment. It’s beautiful—objectively speaking. Natural light streams through, light-colored hardwood floors, a pearl-gray sofa, a thriving houseplant. The walls are white and bare. Not a single shelf. Not a single…
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Folk horror through the world | Part. III
We’re back for the third installment of this series of articles dedicated to folklore around the world, with a particular focus on folk horror. You can find parts one and two on…
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Asmongold & cie : how video games turn people into fascists
More and more video game influencers are becoming fascists. This shift ought to come as a surprise, and yet it has now become commonplace. Worse still, are there not already, in some…
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Folk horror through the world | Part. II
Two years ago, on Point’n’Think, we published an article that took you on a journey around the world… through the lens of folk horror. Many horror games draw on historical events or…
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