Digital identities and the real-life power of FIFA’s player ratings
When confronted with digital scores, there is something strangely humanising about seeing real world athletes coming to terms with being ranked as videogame characters for FIFA 21.
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Fuller House vs The Witcher – the world of Netflix videogame adaptations
Toss a coin to your Netflix – the moral ambiguity of the Witcher was not the only video game adaptation attempted by the streaming giant over Christmas, with saccharine sit-com Fuller House offering some useful insight on Rocket League and its role as a communications tool
Is digital Keanu really the future of games?
The real world actor Keanu Reeves was perhaps the most high profile showing at the E3 videogame expo in the US this week. This was odd considering he is not actually a videogame.
The David Jacklin principle: Facing up to the problem of videogame choice
If our current digital age can allow us to access a literal world of games and entertainment at the touch of a button. How does one choose whether to stick with a game, or to ditch it for a thrilling new experience? One possible answer lies in the zen-like mind of a 1990’s mature gamer.
Kingdom Hearts Month – Can gameplay ever be existential?
We know that videogames can create surreal visual landscapes and existential stories, but can developers now create satisfying and metaphysical gameplay to match the cinematic cutscenes and stories of modern games?
The unspeakable horror of Battlefield 5’s death mechanic
Journalist JJ Robinson notes his very own, very brief role in the potential downfall of a digital Hitler, and wonders when the day may come when game characters can be […]
Of gods and monsters: Smash Brothers Ultimate – the greatest, most terrifying Pokemon game ever made
In Smash Brothers Ultimate, Pokemon are not just rivals fighters, but something unknowable, untouchable and even god-like with their terrifying ability to weaponise the sun or literally turn a world on its head, regardless of one’s skill.
Do electric suffragettes dream of universal suffrage? The complex morality of modern videogaming
If a player acts abominably in a fictional digital world where citizens are ultimately just a piece of code, does it really matter? The open world of Red Dead Redemption 2 throws up some pertinent questions around expression and responsibility in games.
The end of the great movie videogame cash-grab
IT was once common for every blockbuster movie to have a faintly recognisable videogame that tenuously tried to let you live out you own silver screen adventure in faintly similar ways. In celebrating 10 years of film journalism from our friends at Battle Royale with Cheese, we ponder where our rushed Black Panther game has gone.
Gauntlet 2: a study in cowardice, mullets and personal development
While primarily serving as wish fulfilment, games have got quite adept at showing us some of our shortcomings and, perhaps in a redemptive way, how we can look to overcome and get around them.
