This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us reading on parenting via Tomb Raider, the utility of the word 'gameplay', and experiences from Nintendo 'play counselors' from the 1980s and 90s.
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Critical Distance What was it like working a Nintendo hotline in the 80s?
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Critical Distance Can games exist without players?
This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us interviews with the developers behind Cibele and Uriel's Chasm, as well as a meditation on games that aren't meant to be… Read the rest of the article: Can games exist without players?
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Critical Distance Did you know Carl Sagan designed a game?
This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us writing on witch folklore, the intimate language of games, and a lost design doc made by Carl Sagan.
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Critical Distance Get romantic with tentacle monsters
This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us a preview of consensual tentacle sex game Consentacle and a new documentary series on women in games.
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Critical Distance Why games need to stop letting everyone save the world
This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us a look inside the cheerful pacifist adventure game Undertale as well as Life is Strange's final chapter. Kill Screen's Frances Chiem… Read the rest of the article: Why games need to stop letting everyone save the world
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Critical Distance What makes someone a 'girl gamer'?
In her recent video project, Latoya Peterson explores the label "girl gamer". Meanwhile, Kevin Nguyen has a hypothesis about the "Jonathan Franzen of video games."
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Critical Distance How games are keeping traditional symphony orchestras in business
Read about the surprising role games are playing in sustaining symphony orchestras, one woman's struggle in a toxic industry, and how a player discovered their sexuality in Borderlands.
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Critical Distance Let's talk more about The Beginner's Guide, a game about games
This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us further discussion on one of the most interesting works of game criticism ever to be playable, the untold story of the… Read the rest of the article: Let's talk more about The Beginner's Guide, a game about games
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Critical Distance Wil Wheaton on voice acting and the virtues of therapy through Mario Kart
Greetings, Offworlders! We're proud to team up with our friends at Critical Distance to bring you a special digest edition of their popular This Week in Videogame Blogging feature, showcasing… Read the rest of the article: Wil Wheaton on voice acting and the virtues of therapy through Mario Kart
