I maintained my sanity during the pandemic by spending time outdoors in abandoned places. Some of these places exist in the real world, but most were virtual. One of my…
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Best of 2015: Indie and Mobile Games
by Byron Alexander Campbell December 31, 2015As an erstwhile console gamer who now spends way too much quality time with his tablet, I don’t exactly have my Power Glove on the pulse of the modern video…
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Hobby Horse Anatomy: Bawdy and Body in The Binding of Isaac (Ch. 3)
by Jace Brittain June 21, 2015In the first installment of Hobby Horse Anatomy, I proposed The Binding of Isaac as a kind of repository for the repressed and excised content from The Legend of Zelda…
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Hobby Horse Anatomy: Bawdy and Body in The Binding of Isaac (Ch. 2)
by Jace Brittain June 17, 2015In the previous installment of Hobby Horse Anatomy, I proposed The Binding of Isaac as a kind of repository for the repressed and excised content from The Legend of Zelda…
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Hobby Horse Anatomy: Bawdy and Body in The Binding of Isaac (Ch. 1)
by Jace Brittain June 10, 2015I have played every Legend of Zelda game, and as far as I know, Link doesn’t poop.¹ Link, the protagonist of the series, eats soup, drinks milk, and sleeps while…
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12 Days of Gaming: Cards Against Humanity
by Byron Alexander Campbell December 18, 2014Cards Against Humanity by Cards Against Humanity Cards Against Humanity, 2009 Cards Against Humanity / Amazon Playing Cards Against Humanity is the gaming equivalent of swapping dead baby jokes. In fact,…
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I Don’t Wanna Be That Guy: The Cult of the Uber-Hard Game
by Guest Contributor July 21, 2014Somewhere around 2008, a shadowy council of indie game developers gathered under cover of nightfall, their faces etched with deep squint-lines from staring into their ColecoVisions way past their bedtimes.…