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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Gamification: Playing at work and vice versa
Scoring is a concept well known to gamers. This number, which we want to increase, is as old as video games themselves. As far back as the Magnavox Odyssey, arguably the first…
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Democratia: NoFantazio
This article reviews the entire Metaphor: ReFantazio game. It is therefore advisable to have completed the game before reading it. To avoid confusion and distinguish him from the historical figure, I will…
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D-REX or the diagnostic mutation of our time
A critical and personal review of Jurassic World: Renaissance and the monster as a cultural symptom. Like many children, I was fascinated by paleontology—although my interest focused more on ancient and aquatic…
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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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Dread Delusion : Lo-Fi RPG
Sometimes all it takes is a single image to make you want a project more than you should. What we see speaks to us or intrigues us in particular, and that’s the…
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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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Planet of Lana — Facing the Horizon
A quick look at the sky reveals that we’re not on Earth but on another planet. In the coastal village where we play Lana, a young girl, we encounter only humans. Everyone…
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows: A Withered Legend in the Shadow of Cherry Blossoms
Assassin’s Creed Shadows was released at a time many described as pivotal for Ubisoft. Some presented this new entry in the famous franchise as the French publisher’s last chance, framing it more as…
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