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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The Art of Hades
Hades is a title that touched me deeply as a gamer. It’s the standard-bearer of modern independent video games, and it took the whole industry by surprise with the quality of its…
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Harold Halibut: when getting bored becomes an art form
There’s something about being bored, even if we’re not all equal when it comes to boredom. We’ve all experienced moments of weariness so profound, so dense, that they seem to alter relativity,…
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Concrete and wonders: brutalism in video games
What does it mean to recreate, rebuild or construct a Brutalist building in a video game? Brutalist architecture is characterized by hard, imposing forms, exposed concrete and often silhouettes evoking the mold…
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The Art Of Scorn
Ebb Software‘s Scorn is the very antithesis of videogame banality. A visceral descent into the underworld at the heart of interactive art, this opus transcends the norm to submerge us in a…