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Telling Stories Through Glitches: Review of Ghosts in the Machine
For a book that involves worlds and places we can never inhabit, Ghosts in the Machine speaks a lot of truth about how we interact and exist in our own day to day lives. Ghosts in the Machine is a short … Continue reading
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The Game is Talking Back: A Review of “Killing is Harmless”
As I write, Brendan Keogh’s new book has been out for less than a week, and has already been declared a landmark of games criticism. The book’s primary qualification for this opinion seems to be its length, around 50,000 words, … Continue reading
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Against Diluting Censorship
Lana Polansky “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” -Soren Kierkegaard The past few weeks have been dogged by some rather unsavoury aspects of videogame subculture regarding rape culture and … Continue reading
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Nuns with Guns: Hitman, Grindhouse, and Gamer Expectations
by Steven Sukkau I have a strong suspicion I may be a vile person. For the most part, I enjoyed the Hitman Absolution trailer, “Attack of the Saints”. I loaded up the video, consumed what I thought was a striking, if somewhat average piece of marketing media, and went about my day. Technically, the video is stunning. I actually made a double take, unsure if the trailer was live action. My favorite pieces of media have often come from Blur studios that routinely create artful marketing trailers of such quality that they outstrip the actual product represented. I love these things, and I assumed the Hitman trailer was created in the same vein. Then Twitter erupted. One of the major voices in this was Brendan Keogh wrote, who noted the “conflation of hypersexualisation and violence” in the trailer: “Violence against women in media is fine. It’s when it is conflated Continue reading
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Response: Shadow of The Partisans
by Steven Sukkau In an introspective meditation on attending Pax East for the first time as a journalist, Adam Harshberger writes about the developing medium of video games .Stunned by a sculpture near the Boston Convention and Exhibition Centre, Harshberger … Continue reading
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Chasing Mirages: Turning Videogame Criticism Away from the Future
By Brendan Keogh With every major game release, interesting discussions bloom across the world. Articles, reviews, and conversations on Twitter and Facebook flourish as one critic gushes about the game and another person dismisses it. Of course, there’s no ‘right’ … Continue reading