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A Family That Plays Together
Posted on Jun 21, 2016Sep 19, 2017

A Family That Plays Together

[This piece was written as a part of Critical Distance‘s June 2016 Blogs of the Round Table feature] Videogame fiction, like a lot of adventure fiction for young people, places the central character in the position of rescuing a loved one. Often the loved one our hero must rescue is a damsel in distress with an implicit … Continue reading A Family That Plays Together

Natural Heroes: Inevitable Environmentalism in Games
Posted on Jun 25, 2013Jun 22, 2015

Natural Heroes: Inevitable Environmentalism in Games

[Originally posted on PopMatters] I’ve saved a lot of worlds in over two decades of playing video games. It’s refreshing that modern games are more personal than ever and that they don’t have to lean on something as ostentatious as saving the world to get their point across. Still, I have to confess that I’m fond … Continue reading Natural Heroes: Inevitable Environmentalism in Games

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