Author: Aleksi Vesanen
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Read Only Memories: Human After All
If you miss the glory days of old-school text-driven adventure games and have a soft spot in your heart for cyberpunk (and extremely cute robots), Read Only Memories is right up your alley. Set in the neon-tinged future of 2064, you play as a freelance journalist whose inventor friend Hayden has vanished. Fortunately Hayden’s latest invention, the…
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Penny Arcade: The Card Game – Synergize This
The more I played of Penny Arcade: The Card Game, the more I wondered who this game is actually made for. The fact that it’s based on the long-running webcomic Penny Arcade implies that the game is for fans of the series, as it relies heavily on references to the comic itself. Since this is a card game and…
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Casual Threats: The Feminization of Casual Video Games
Aleksi Vesanen Title: Casual Threats: The Feminization of Casual Video Games Author: John Vanderhoef Published in: ADA: A Journal of Gender, New Media & Technology. Issue #2: Feminist Game Studies Original URL: http://adanewmedia.org/2013/06/issue2-vanderhoef/ Moms playing Wii Sports: The greatest threat to a hardcore gamer’s pride. #casual To the hardest of the hardcore gamer, “Casual” is…
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Luigi’s Mansion: Bustin’ Makes Me Feel Good
Aleksi Vesanen Platform: Nintendo Gamecube Publisher: Nintendo Release date: May 3rd, 2002 PEGI rating: 3+ You have to give Nintendo credit for going their own way when they launched the Gamecube in 2002, with one of the most controversial launch titles in recent history: Luigi’s Mansion. While it wasn’t exactly what we wanted out of a new Nintendo system…
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Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Defying expectations
Aleksi Vesanen If you’ve been on Steam for a long enough time, you already know that in recent years Steam has been pretty much quantity over quality in a lot of ways. Steam is, after all, the most popular online marketplace for games, and everyone wants to be a part of it. Steam’s own lack…