Cyber gastronomes – the evolving role of video game food
Does modern gaming tells us a lot more about the reality of food than a trip to Tesco or a few clicks on Deliveroo?
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Alienation and the importance of a good “thanks”
Imagine being given just four words to convey the enormity of existence. How would you even begin choose? Alienation on the PS4 gives you less than a dozen to play around with.
Kingdom Hearts: part fairytale, part Final Fantasy, all awkward adolescence
Kingdom Hearts brings together the intraspective melodrama of Japanese developer Square’s Final Fantasy series of games with the largely more wholesome, melodic morality tales of Walt Disney’s animated and live action features creating something of a wonderful cocktail.
Sonic vs Mario – the enduring battle to tame hot, nasty, bad-ass speed
“I am a passenger, And I ride and I ride, I ride through the city’s backside, I see the stars come out of the sky, Yeah, they’re bright in a […]
Rick, Morty, licenced games and post-VR toilet confusion
VR at its most grandiose seeks to change our very perception of reality on a fundamental level. At its worst, the technology wants you to swing a piece of plastic around and pretend you are a Jedi – there is a fine line separating these outcomes.
The ties that bind – Intimacy and isolation in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
By Neil Merrett Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime – released on Playstation 4 in 2015, Asteroid Base Gaming, during its tumultuous youth and teenage years, was often written off as an […]
The average gamer – a statistical approach to the modern American
Although long associated with isolated teens sat in bedrooms, new findings from US find that women aged 18 years and older represent a larger proportion of regular gamers than males under the age of 18.
