Why You Should Attend Combo Breaker
Fighting game tournaments. It’s not very difficult to imagine what they might be like. Dozens or hundreds of people in an arcade, game store, or ballroom playing titles like...
Year of the GIANTS
2018 has been a big year for GIANTS Software and the Farming Simulator series. Truthfully, 2016, 2017, and 2018 have been a big three years for GIANTS, but it...
Community Effort Orlando Fighting Game Championships 2018 feat. Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, Super...
Get ready for another dose of fighting game action this weekend! Community Effort Orlando 2018 (CEO) brings its amazing reputation and puts it on the line at the Ocean...
Nier and Nietzsche: Conveying Nihilism Through Mechanics
Introduction
Yoko Taro’s wild masterpiece Nier:Automata dares to ask the player why they picked up the controller in the first place. The main characters, and by extension the player, toil...
Censored or Celebrated 2: Renowned LGBT+ Characters in Video Games
Renowned LGBT Characters
This week we focus on some of the LGBT characters celebrated in the recent decades of video gaming. We’ll examine the ruins of Jackson County, Wyoming circa 2033,...
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is not Another Dark Souls
With the first teaser for Shadows Die Twice premiering at The Game Awards last December, fans of the Kadokawa owned developer From Software have been speculating about what the game...
Why Devil May Cry 5’s Announcement Feels Like a Miracle
Rumors have been rising and falling the past two years, but at Microsoft’s E3 conference what many thought was impossible happened; Devil May Cry 5 was announced to be...
Xbox Game Pass Contains Over $3,000 in Value
Xbox Game Pass has quickly become one of the best values in video games.
Available in over 40 markets globally, the service just celebrated its first anniversary on June 1st....
Flouting Margins 3: LGBT Censorship
Our-Story
The start of this story didn’t have the clearest path at the inception of the video game industry. When video games first started to appear in public spaces, developers...
Censored or Celebrated (Flouting Margins: Part Two)
Click here to read Flouting Margins: Part One if you haven't caught it yet!
Genesis, and I don’t mean SEGA!
Everything has a beginning, so I easily found my way to the start...