I still play this song sometimes. It will never die.

Oh, man, this game. This game.

Not even Theodore Rex?

I love how Steven Universe has accurate yet non-copyright-infringing references to actual consoles throughout the show.

The cruel meatball of war has rolled onto our laps, and ruined our white pants of peace!

It kind of counts. The episode revolves around a video game, but it doesn’t really riff on any specific titles or feel like a game that would actually exist. It’s using video games aesthetics in a shallow, simplistic way... and this doesn’t make it a bad episode, just a slightly lazy one.

I love the sense of interconnectedness and scale in the game. You move from area to area in the castle, but it goes out of its way to join them all together; you feel like you’re moving through one big structure. And when you look outside, the world seems to go on forever. In a lot of older titles, it’s all too easy…

I think my reaction is partly down to me being at a time in my life when I can’t really be bothered with a lot of games. Too many mechanics to brush up on, too much prior gameplay to catch up on. Ico is a lot smaller in scope, and infinitely more appealing as a result.

I’ve just started playing through Ico for the first time, and I’m loving it. It’s an amazingly focused, pared-back experience that doesn’t waste any time on extraneous elements. The combat’s undernourished and the camera is... perplexing, but I think it holds up remarkably well.

I’m getting a strong Lord Business vibe from the Battle for Asgard set.

This is quite possibly the stupidest hardware setup I have ever seen.

Lego Dimensions is a fun game and pretty staggering as a pop-culture crossover, but in my opinion it never quite justifies the investment. Many of the puzzles are simply about using the right ability at the right time, or doing a task that is laborious but uncomplicated. The toy pad does get used as an actual gameplay…

It looks like Magnemites like to feel pretty as well. Who knew?

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I’m not saying Durant’s creating art from a Native perspective or any other minority perspective. The problem- as I see it- is that he’s appropriating historical items with a lot of baggage and using them as a way to work through his own ignorance. He’s using it to further explore and understand his own…

When we criticise a person’s actions, though, we don’t typically treat their intentions as some kind of extenuating circumstance. We look at the actual impact their actions had, whether or not they meant to cause harm in the first place. A bully treating somebody like shit doesn’t become ameliorated if they only saw…

I feel like we have to approach the idea of offence and subject matter in a more nuanced way. When a piece of art is attacking someone who can take the hit and should be scrutinised, then it’s right and necessary that it exists. Yes, Minister is deeply unflattering to the British government, but that’s an entity that…

We draw the line on writing from minority perspectives when we realise we can’t write with as much honesty and insight as someone who truly understands the situation at hand. As a white person, I can only understand the experience of a black person up to a point. I can read novels and essays by black people, I can…

This is one game I wish had a physical release. They could have at least added one to the special edition...

But some of the people protesting this sculpture were descended from the Native people executed on these gallows during the war. Even if there’s a considerable distance in time between then and now, I’d argue that’s a legitimate reason to protest. If I was a Native American, I think I’d be pretty shocked if something…