All how-I-came-to-love-nature stories begin with childhood, so here we go to the 90s. I was the sort of kid with galactic dolphin posters, and I was the sort of kid…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayGamesVideo GamesHow Zelda Saved Me: The Inspiration, Feminism, and Empowerment of Hyrule
My shield glistens in the filmy haze of morning light. I am alone, free to roam this vast expanse. With a whistle my loyal horse appears, armored in steel, teleporting…
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Continuing with our series of “Best of 2019″ lists curated by the entire Entropy community, we present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team…
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Like my namesake, I have a weakness for excess. Give me audacious; give me far-reaching. Even if it doesn’t quite hit the mark, I’ll probably be impressed. Hence my fondness…
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Continuing with our series of “Best of 2018″ lists curated by the entire Entropy community, we present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team…
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Harry: That’s the lighthouse? Cybil: Nothing’s quite what you expect, is it? It begins with a warning: PSYCHOLOGY WARNING This video game psychologically profiles you as you play. It gets…
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This town. It knows me. It showed me things. It wants me to finish this. Murphy Pendleton kills monsters. One of the most significant, most haunting lines of the Silent…
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Travis, you messed-up sonofabitch. Whatchu doin’ on my road? Given its troubled history, it’s a miracle Silent Hill: Origins turned out as well as it did. The first Silent Hill title…
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Everything’s just been falling apart around us, you know, but you just keep moving forward. It’s been three years since I last set foot in Silent Hill. Its streets are…
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GamesReviewVideo GamesSuper Mario Odyssey Is a Surreal Trip Through Gaming’s Past, Present, and Future
A dusty, barren lunar surface. Light synths seem to struggle to find a melody as a fat, squat man in a dazzling white tuxedo—complete with top-hat—flips, bounds, and rolls in…
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Featuring some outstanding and notable PC games released in 2017: 1) South Park: The Fractured But Whole 2) Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus 3) Night in the Woods 4) Middle-earth:…
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Early this year, I started work on a novel. It isn’t my first longer writing project: I have a bad middle-school fantasy epic under my belt, and last year I…
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Dear Lara, First of all, you should know you were my first video game girlfriend. Princess Peach? Just a kindergarten crush. Samus Aran? She always frightened me a bit, like…
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Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop (or tabletop-adjacent) game each month. This…
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