Elise Favis Jun 6, 2022. 14 minute read
Summer Game Fest: The Journey to Evolve What E3 Left Behind
In July 2020, a PlayStation representative showed up at Geoff Keighley’s door with an unreleased video game controller in hand. Instead of being presented on a shiny, bright stage at E3, the PlayStation 5 DualSense would have its first hands-on demo recorded from a small, unassuming spare bedroom in Los…
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Imran Khan May 6, 2022. 16 minute read
The Hopeful Beginning and Abrupt Shuttering of Funomena
In a 2020 Game Developers Conference Q&A, Funomena CEO Robin Hunicke advised, “We need to be okay with being less productive and more caring to one another. If we don’t do that, we’ll never get through anything.” She signed off a few minutes later on the optimistic note that people…
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Kenneth Shepard Aug 17, 2021. 26 minute read
Intimate Space: The State of Queerness in Mass Effect
In Mass Effect’s vision of the far-flung future, humanity has integrated into a galactic society. Long gone are the otherings and dissension of modern-day Earth, as humans take their place in the stars beyond. At least, that’s the future it posits on the surface. In practice? Mass Effect is an…
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