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Exposition Break Podcast: Soulsin’
Do you like Hidetaka Miyazaki games? Of course you do. Everyone likes Miyazaki’s games, because not liking them is to not like games at all—or at least to have bad taste. In any case,…
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 – The Coronavirus as Board Game
A couple weeks ago, Z-Man Games, a subsidiary of board gaming behemoth/venture capital shell company Asmodee, announced the indefinite delay of any future Pandemic games, saying that, “Out of respect for those affected by…
Exposition Break Podcast: Back from the Dead
After a recording break of… well, longer than we care to think about, we’ve returned to the realm of podcasting just in time for the world to fall apart around us. Nice. Anyhow, for…
Death Stranding in the Middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic
I played Death Stranding before the Coronavirus, Covid-19, pandemicized and completely changed the shape of personal interactions. And indeed, that’s the world it was made for, as Hideo Kojima designed the game in pre-quarantine…
Streaming La Mulana 2
I finally have internet that has a respectable upload speed and can finally stream a little bit. After fiddling with OBS for the last couple days, I did my first real stream this morning…
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order – Review
These days, I’m hesitant to publicly say anything positive, negative, or even neutral about a modern Star Wars release for fear that a branch of the fandom will arrive pounding at my door with…
WarioWare: Smooth Moves – The Redemption of Motion Controls
Motion controls get a bad rap. Which, I want to make completely clear, is not the same thing as saying that most games that actually use motion controls get a bad rap—rather, they’re treated…
Codec Logs: What Do Jeans Have to Do With Nature and Order?
I’m fond of the term “Kojimaverse,” especially since there are plenty of nods to his other works in the Metal Gear games, and I say that as someone who’s probably missed countless others as…
Of COURSE I Pre-Ordered Death Stranding
Yesterday, I asked Sean to write about his anticipation of Death Stranding. I’ve never seen him so anxious for the release of a game and wanted to know how he got here, the day…
Yes, I Actually Pre-Ordered Death Stranding
While I’ve been playing video games for as far back as my memory can strain, back to the days when my uncle Miguel gave us an old Atari 2600 and my baffled family was…
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