[font_text link=”” icon=”star” color=”dark” size=”small” border=”off” spin=”off”]Content note: Strong language, spoilers for Night in the Woods.[/font_text] It’s been just over a year since Night in the Woods was first released…
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice has been embraced by some players as an effective and affecting portrayal of mental health issues, and criticized by others for oversimplifying those same issues. In a…
It’s been nearly 14 years since Erin Hoffman-John anonymously published the historic EA spouse letter, a blog post that made the world aware of just how toxic game development work…
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The phrase “binge gaming” has bad connotations — it suggests unhealthy overindulgence and a lack of control. But is it really so bad to spend a bunch of hours playing…
How do games help shape our personalities? How do they change our lives? Those are some of the questions asked by game scholar Katherine Cross in this article for Playtime.…
If you haven’t heard of Hygge, you may not have been inside a bookstore lately. It’s a Danish word meaning, roughly, “wellbeing,” but it’s also a concept that encompasses coziness,…
When you’re playing a game, you probably don’t set out to be frustrated. Frustration is a feeling we associate with bad game design, with unfair competitions, with controllers thrown at…
For Destiny 2 players, Eververse is a major point of contention. Eververse is a fictional trading company that sells loot boxes for real-world money. These loot boxes, known as Bright…
Death is a concept few of us are comfortable with. For most people, being afraid of dying isn’t something that directly impacts our days and nights. It might inform our…