Author: Taylor Hidalgo
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Defiance 2050 Review – Good Enough for a Day’s Work
“Minor arkfall detected,” the artificial intelligence in your mind says, “let’s go earn some scrip.”
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Wanderlust – Rolling Green
I find myself bouncing from moment to moment, almost drowning in things to touch, to climb, to collect.
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Art Tickles – Neither at Once
The peace will never last.
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Subnautica Review – Deeply Absorbed in Darkness
Written for MMOGames.com, recreated in-part with permission. The ocean swallows me whole, and as I sink into its depths, I wonder if I will ever surface again. It is an alien world beneath the waves. A world of dizzying proportions, the safer shallows giving ground to impossible darkness in the depths. My lungs feel the…
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TQotW – Game Criticism Reading List
As much as games are a silly entertainment, they’re also bigger than that.
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Art Tickles – Putting Out Gunfire
I love guns. I do not like guns. They are fascinating. They are terrible.
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Hyper Universe Review – On Many Levels
Conflict is more than just larger weapons and stronger warriors.
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Art Tickles – What Lurks Beneath
Written for Haywire Magazine. I don’t really know what I’m doing. Subnautica isn’t a game about anything in particular. At least, not for me. It has crafting mechanics, certainly, and a narrative, but what really calls to me are its depths. The cool, crushing, oxygen-squeezing uncertainties of the unknown deeps and caverns call to me…
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Art Tickles – What Friends Do
It’s meant to give the player a reason to enjoy the experience, unburdened by too much expectation.
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Art Tickles – Hard Stop, Fresh Start
Written for Haywire Magazine. This was a tough year. A year that brought a lot of political struggle, a lot of social outcry, a great deal of exhaustion, and not a lot of positivity to show for it. It was a year in which a lot of people fought hard for every single victory. It…
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Wild Buster Preview – A Violent, Alien Landscape
It’s all in ruins. The war came, and we lost. Our planet was bathed in fire, our people evacuated, and we fled our world.
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Escape from Tarkov Preview — Every Round is Sudden Death
I wait in my shroud of nature, and listen for what I’m certain will be the rest of my life.