In gaming as in real life, teamwork skills matter. When one player didn’t get the memo, the game master makes the kick.
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Exploring the world of gaming from a secular perspective.
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Worldbuilding: How to reject reality and create your own
Long ago, I discovered what it must be like to be a god. I stretched forth my hand and called continents and cultures, animals and cities, sometimes entire worlds into being. I altered the laws of physics and the nature of reality. If that’s not what a god does, then what is?
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The insidious move to digital games and PlayStation’s possible £5bn fine
When I first heard that you could get a digital version of the PS4 and now the PS5, I immediately suspected some nefarious profiteering shenanigans in the death of physical-copy games. Now a consumer champion in the UK is taking Sony to court for overcharging PlayStation gamers for six years. Gaming is the biggest entertainment […]
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Replay: Dark Souls 2
What is the margin between being good and being great? It’s something I’ve often thought about. It also seems to be preoccupation of every self-motivation video I see on Instagram, or misattributed quote on Twitter. There is an obsession with greatness, and yet so few people are able to achieve it. I believe it’s because […]
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The wrong writer for the next FromSoftware Game—and the right one
If there is a gamer in your life, you might not have seen them for a while. They’re not returning your texts. They’re showing up to meetings red-eyed and exhausted. There is a reason. They’re playing Elden Ring. If they say otherwise, that they don’t enjoy the series, that it’s too difficult and obscure, they’re […]
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Replay: ‘Dark Souls’ (2011)
To mark the release of FromSoftware’s video game epic, Elden Ring, I will be playing through every Soulsbourne game. I have never played any of the games in the series, and I’ve been regularly told that they are some of the most difficult games ever made. I have a checkered history with difficult games. I […]
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Microsoft’s purchase of Activision is about the Metaverse
There’s been a lot of talk about the Metaverse recently, thanks to Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement last year that he’d be changing Facebook’s name to Meta and shifting the company’s focus to “the Metaverse.“ What is the Metaverse? Although we have glimpses of the Metaverse today in gaming (Roblox, Fortnite, and other games), the Metaverse is […]
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‘Unsighted’: The Best 2D Zelda Game of All Time
I have a checkered past with the Zelda games. The first Zelda game I ever “played” was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. And by “played” I mean I watched my friend play on his Nintendo 64. His little brother would also watch, and because he was louder and angrier (and family), he would […]
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‘Returnal’: The game I beat without my daddy’s help
I don’t like to use the phrase “kids these days.” For one, I’m not actually old enough to use it, and two, generational feuds are nonsense. They’re perpetuated by short memories and a lack of empathy. The sooner we can do away with such silly tribalism and see past our own experiences, the sooner we […]
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COVID denialists are humanity’s griefers
One of her biggest mistakes might be how she views COVID denialists themselves. They are, in essence, griefers. And ignoring griefers does not make them go away.