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…
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Monster Hunter Wilds: The retention loop
Human beings have never acted without a purpose. Even for the most basic actions such as eating, sleeping and reproducing, we feel a sense of pleasure. The search for this pleasurable sensation…
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Red Dead Redemption 2, the ruins of a world
October 26, 2018, Rockstar Games celebrates the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, its most recent game to date. Five long years separate this new production, led by the Houser brothers, from…
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Do video games belong in museums?
While the presence of video games in museums is not a particularly recent phenomenon, it has undeniably intensified in recent years to the point where the very idea of exhibiting video games…
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The remains of the future by Simon Stålenhag
It is difficult to tackle the work of an artist like Simon Stålenhag. I have always been fascinated by his work, since the release of his first book Tales from the Loop,…
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Body Horror: A mirror of our modern anxieties
Our bodies don’t belong to us. Not totally. Not really. What we perceive as a stable entity, flesh defined by precise limits, is in reality a malleable material, in perpetual change. Growing,…
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Discovering David Lynch
It’s always sad to think that we discover an artist when we hear of his death. That it’s the announcement of his death that reminds us that his works are still among…
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Breaking game engine monopolies
Let’s not (just) wait for Godot When it comes to video game engines today, two names almost systematically dominate discussions: Unity and Unreal Engine. These two tools, developed respectively by Unity Technologies…
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