Fighting Old Battles Again
Age of Mythology: 20th Anniversary
By Inaki
- Feature
- video games
- Age of Empires
- Ensemble Studios
- Microsoft Game Studios
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Final Fantasy XIV: The Trial
The sprout’s guide to pain management and the reality of the free FFXIV trial
By David Estrella
- Feature
- video games
- Final Fantasy
- Square Enix
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Choosing Her: Houshou Marine and the Healing Power of Art
The popular vtuber balances her personal story and her fiction
By Inaki
- Feature
- Houshou Marine
- vtubers
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A New Age: Age of Empire IV
Memories, moneys, and bubbles
By Inaki
- Feature
- video games
- Age of Empires
- Ensemble Studios
- Real Time Strategy
- video games
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(Analog) Preservation in the Age of (Digital) Decay
Save Chargeman Ken
By Inaki
- Feature
- anime
- Chargeman Ken
- Eiji Tanaka
- Knack (aka ICHI)
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Chiyoko Fujiwara Has Come Unstuck in Time
Reveling in the fractured, nonlinear surrealism of Satoshi Kon’s Millennium Actress.
By Evan Minto
- Feature
- anime
- Eleven Arts
- Madhouse
- Masao Maruyama
- Millennium Actress
- Satoshi Kon
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Escaping from Chairs and Shredding Books
The Games of GDC 2019
By Evan Minto
- Feature
- conventions
- video games
- alt.ctrl.GDC
- Black Emperor
- Cards Against Calamity
- Game Developers Conference 2019
- HOT SWAP: All Hands on Deck
- King of the Hat
- Line Wobbler
- Octopad
- Ruins Climber
- The Book Ritual
- The Sojourn
- Tied Escape: The Curse of Cortez
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The “Radically Casual” Charm of Lost Levels
A rundown of the microtalks from the GDC-adjacent game design unconference
By Evan Minto
- Feature
- conventions
- video games
- Game Developers Conference 2019
- Lost Levels
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“You Are Our Future”
The multi-generational MMO One Hour One Life is a beautiful, heart-wrenching experiment in collaborative gameplay.
By Evan Minto
- Feature
- video games
- Jason Rohrer
- One Hour One Life
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The Broad Appeal of Yuri!!! on Ice
There’s more to Yuri’s tale than romance.
By Alex Osborn
- Feature
- anime
- Fall 2016 Anime
- Mappa
- Sayo Yamamoto
- Yuri!!! on ICE
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E3 Evolves as Gaming's Biggest Players Scale Back Their Presence
Is the world’s premier video game trade show on its way out, or simply undergoing a few growing pains?
By Alex Osborn
- Feature
- video games
- Activision Blizzard
- Call of Duty
- Disney
- E3 2016
- Electronic Arts
- industry
- Microsoft
- Nintendo
- NX
- Sony
- Wargaming
- Zelda
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A Letter to Momo and the Art of Anime Dubbing
The best dubs are vectors for cultural exchange, not barriers to it.
By Charles Dunbar
- Feature
- animation
- anime
- 20th Century Fox
- A Letter to Momo
- Beck
- Disney
- GKids
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Only Yesterday
- Studio Ghibli
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Akira Yearbook: Boom and Bust
It's easy to overlook the brilliant buildup of Akira's story amid the pyrotechnics.
By Evan Minto
- Feature
- anime
- Akira
- Akira Yearbook
- Katsuhiro Otomo
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KITE vs. KITE
The nurtured natures of revenge
By Ink
- Feature
- anime
- movies
- Brian Cox
- KITE
- Ralph Ziman
- Yasuomi Umetsu
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Umineko: When They Cry
More than just a murder mystery: a mirror to humanity
By Katriel Page
- Feature
- anime
- manga
- video games
- 07th Expansion
- Umineko
- When They Cry
