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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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Game of Faune : How does Bug Fables transform a tiny bit of garden into a credible world?
When you were young, did you imagine stories about the insects you observed? Personally, I loved watching them, especially bees. And even though I still love observing them, I no longer attribute…
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The golden age of survival horror: myth or reality? (Part 2)
If you haven’t yet read part 1 of this report, I strongly encourage you to do so in order to better understand what follows. Here we are again on our journey through…
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The Fall and Rebirth of Sega
Sega is an industrial tragedy from which the video game industry has never fully recovered. The fate of the Japanese manufacturer is a specter whose shadow looms large as the media storm…
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Catherine: Behind the mask, the abyss
When the team behind the modern Persona games decided to tell the story of the escapades and torments of a young adult haunted by his impulses, the result was Catherine, an atypical…
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The True Story of The Alters
In just a few decades, video games have quickly established themselves as a giant in the global cultural industry. Long inseparable from Japan, today the industry relies heavily on the American giant…
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Yakuza 0: Dragons, neon lights, and lives on hold
When Toshihiro Nagoshi conceived Yakuza in the mid 2000s Sega was no longer the flamboyant empire it had been when it reigned among the great console manufacturers. The company was searching for…
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The golden age of survival horror : myth or reality ? (Part 1)
Before we begin, it’s important to note that it’s always difficult to speak of the history of a genre, whatever the medium, with any certainty. On the one hand, there are the…
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Home sweet home – The imaginary house
“I, Herbert S. Sinclair, of the Mount Holly Estate at Reddington, do publish and declare this instrument my last will and testament…… I give and bequeath to my grandnephew, Simon P. Jones,…
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Playful micro-geopolitics on Openfront.io
In online games, players’ limited expressivity is constantly positioned within social and political struggles, which often take the form of fascist slogans, and determine game situations by imposing emerging but inevitable stakes…