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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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Jusant: between introspection and emotional elegance
In maritime terminology, jusant refers to the ebb tide. The sea level becomes very low as the water recedes from the coast, making it difficult for boats to dock. Caused by 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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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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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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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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Fatal Frame: when we become the directors of our own fears
Why are we afraid when we play a horror game? What is it that inspires that strange but delightful feeling of terror? A simple jumpscare at the corner of a corridor? The…
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Philosophy of Failure
Context I’m starting this piece with a question that came to me during my first few hours of play in the franchise’s second installment: “Why am I so afraid of failure in…
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Chained Echoes: 16-bit Renaissance
I’ve been writing about video games for over a year now, and I realize that I’ve never yet talked about J-RPGs, a genre I’ve been particularly fond of since my childhood. After…