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Kim Key Jul 14, 2020. 4 minute read
7 Games for Managing Distress and Regulating Emotions
If the question “How are you?” is enough to send you into a state of confusion and panic, you’re not alone. 2020 has been rough on a lot of us. For some, that means first-person shooters and fighting games may not be hitting the way they used to. Maybe you…
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Natalie Flores Mar 29, 2020. 14 minute read
12 Video Games You Can Play to Ease Your Anxiety During Quarantine
Hi, hello. It’s been a rough last few weeks, hasn’t it? Chances are you had enough to worry about before a global pandemic. And now, you’ve been thrust into a world in which the extremely valid problems you were stressing over probably feel distant compared to how they are now. You’re…
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Elizabeth Ballou Aug 12, 2019. 4 minute read
7 Great Games for Chilling Out on Vacation
It is a truth universally acknowledged that certain books and vacation are perfect for each other. Vacation reads are a whole category of literature which appear annually on lists of recommendations and fill airport bookstore shelves. Why not vacation games, then? Like its book counterpart, the ideal vacation game is vivid,…
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Douglas Fry Mar 7, 2017. 8 minute read
Framing Dystopia
The sci-fi games of 2016 were full of dystopias -- and full of in-universe art created to support or destroy those dark worlds.
READ MORE >Nate Ewert-Krocker Dec 15, 2016. 9 minute read
The Best Game Soundtracks of 2016
2016 has been a hard year in uncountable ways, but paradoxically it has been an excellent year for videogame soundtracks. We’ve had a wealth of swelling, orchestral scores, a mountain of pulse-pounding electronica, and a cornucopia of ethereal, ambient soundscapes. We’ve had folksy guitar and not-so-folksy guitar, shredding frets and…
READ MORE >Mike Joffe Aug 26, 2016. 9 minute read
No winners or losers: how games misrepresent ecologies
Fictional ecologies are quite common in videogames-- but the way games represent them doesn't usually reflect real life.
READ MORE >Danielle Riendeau Aug 4, 2016. Less than a minute
Abzu’s 90 minutes of glorious ocean exploration
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's wake.
READ MORE >James O'Connor Aug 2, 2016. 3 minute read
Abzu review
That’s your solution to everything, move under the sea.
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