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A Zelda Game Ought To Leave More To The Imagination Than This

I like the mossy cave leading to the Great Deku Tree, the way the tunnel feels less like infrastructure and more like an accident of nature. Like Link is boring through the wild history of a world ...
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In Fields Of Mistria, The Pleasures Are In The Details

I often wonder why I play so many farming simulators. Mechanically, most of them are exactly the same—you farm, you sell crops, you romance townspeople, rinse and repeat. Fields of Mistria does not ...
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You Can't Own A Video Game Because Other People Also Own Video Games, Sony Argues In Court Filing

Back in June, some gamers sued Sony over how games are purchased on its digital storefront, claiming the company violated a California law requiring stores to make clear that digital purchases are a ...
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I Wish Rockstar Cared About People As Much As It Does GTA VI NPCs

After years of leaks and anticipation, it finally happened: Rockstar released gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, the most expensive video game in history. And boy does it look the part. Vice ...
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Money Spent On South Of Midnight Now Supports Its Developers, Not Microsoft

Ever since Microsoft laid off 1,600 employees and—in the process—kicked multiple studios to the curb, there’s been uncertainty about how the split will impact games originally published under its ...
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It Doesn’t Get Much Bleaker Than The US Army Offering Four Days Of GTA VI In Exchange For Several Years Of Additional Service

Let’s say you’ve already spent some time in the United States Army, a vicious colonial project that in recent years has been weaponized by a government with even more openly fascistic tendencies than ...
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Vibes Around GTA VI Continue To Be Rancid As Gameplay Footage Leaks And Fired Devs Ask Fans Not To Boycott

Grand Theft Auto VI, less a video game at this point and more a long-prophesied messianic figure, is just over a week away from its big, brazenly opportunistic Netflix “extended look” preview. Fans, ...
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This Is Hopefully The Last Time I'm Writing About 1666: Amsterdam

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdam was when the game's reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshit AI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is ...
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Chasing Lilacs

The following is an excerpt from CTRL: Essays on Video Games, a book published by The Lilliput Press and edited by Dean Fee. Chasing Lilacs, by Brenda Romero, is a personal history told through the ...
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Gushes About Elder Scrolls VI, Does Not Seem To Notice Giant Rat On Bethesda Office Lawn

Today Xbox CEO Asha Sharma took a trip to Bethesda Game Studios in Rockville, Maryland. She was welcomed with open arms, of a sort. Those arms belonged to a giant inflatable version of Scabby, a rat ...
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Players Are Already Beating Big Walk Without All The Big Walking

While my group meandered and lost each other in Big Walk, we talked about how excited we were to see what speedrunners would get up to with the game. I’ve been keeping my eye on the leaderboards since ...