UMURANGI GENERATION

Fūnk-é Joseph Dec 23, 2020. 11 minute read

Fūnk-é Joseph’s Game of the Year 2020 List

We did it gamers. 2020 is almost over. I can’t believe it. And while it was definitely a wack year, I didn’t entirely hate it! The world has been exploding. We all made a shift towards a more online-centric way of life. It’s bittersweet; I like not having to walk through the snow…

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Danielle Riendeau Dec 21, 2020. 5 minute read

Danielle Riendeau’s Game of the Year List 2020

I’ll refrain from making any sweeping statements about what it was to play games in 2020, given everything that’s happened this year. Instead, I’m going to go right ahead and get out of the way of my list — these were my favorite gaming experiences this year, aside from my…

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Jack Yarwood Dec 3, 2020. 5 minute read

‘Soon, Only the Ocean’ is One of the Best Games of 2020, But You Can’t Play It

I always find talking about my games of the year particularly challenging. Sometimes that’s down to the fear that I’ve missed something great, and other times simply due to the way that my opinions seem to change the more I try to pin them down. But as we approach the…

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Ren Jun 25, 2020. 4 minute read

Umurangi Generation is an Ode to a Beautiful, Broken World

I haven’t spent long enough in this neighborhood to love it right . Not yet. In spite of this, I climb a fire escape to the place where the world isn’t. My bag snags on the old brick wall. It’s not enough to provide much resistance — just enough to…

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Danielle Riendeau Jun 2, 2020. 1 minute read

Fanwidth (A Fanbyte Podcast) Episode 066: A Four-Trick Pony

Join Niki, Ren, John, and Danielle on an afternoon chat of the things we have on our minds today. We have a few games we’re into, including Sludge Life, Valorant, and Umurangi Generation. We’ve got a lot of music, including… our most embarrassing secrets on Spotify. And we have a…

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Jack Yarwood May 15, 2020. 8 minute read

How Cyberpunk Games Are Thriving Beyond 2077

With its rainswept cities and bleeding neon signs, the cyberpunk genre is often a feast for the eyes. And Cyberpunk 2077 is no exception. However, beyond CD Projekt Red’s ambitious adaptation of the popular tabletop role-playing game, there are a ton of smaller teams plugging away on their own cyberpunk…

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