Category: Escapist Magazine
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“Gamers” Are Still Dead, YA’ll
Written for Escapist Magazine, recreated with permission. Although gaming is alive and well, the stereotype of a basement-dwelling Mountain Dew goblin-teenager who screams at his mother for “interrupting” his boob-modded Call of Duty match to give him his pizza rolls is image others have of gamers. It’s an image we need to resist. I think…
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Event[0] Review – All the Stars Look at You
Overflowing, dense, humanistic, isolating, personable, alien, difficult to navigate, and is the closest thing to a siren that I’ll ever encounter in my life.
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Mighty No. 9 Review – Blue. Bombing.
Mighty No. 9 does succeed at doing things, but makes them hardly worth doing.
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Ultimate Chicken Horse Review – A Great Way to Make and Lose Friends
The first turn is always the easiest.
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Firewatch Review – Burning a Hole Through my Heart
The Wyoming wilderness is rich and enveloping. All around, everything feels… Something.
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Spellweaver Review – Trading One Card Game for Another
It is a very good version of a familiar game.
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That Dragon, Cancer Review – The Scrapbook of a Life, Both Too Fast and Too Long
I want you to imagine and describe a brand new color.
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Legends of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Review – Elevated RPG
A heavily polished experience, but one that feels just short of perfection.
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Steamworld Heist Review – In Space, No One Can Hear You Steam
In space, no one can hear you steam.
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Mushihimesama Review – Bullets, Bugs, Bullets, and Bullets
Adrift in a sea of purple, it changes you.
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Hard West Review – Dark Tales of a Demonic West
Dust travels with the wind, and death waits at the end of the road.
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Galak-Z Review – Brutal, Beautiful Space
Precise, excellent, and unrelentingly difficult.