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“Time4Cat”: Of Time, Perception and Fatality

03.27.11 – 5:15 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Multimedia Reviews. As inevitable as the pun may be, there’s something about the little flash game, Time4Cat, that is, itself, rather timely. Having just relocated myself for graduate school and spending inordinate amounts of time unpacking, assembling furniture, commuting, attending orientation, attending classes, doing readings, going to a day job, it feels [...]

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Limbo: A Little Physics Platformer of the Gothic Tradition

03.27.11 – 5:03 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Multimedia Reviews. There are a few games we can look to as strong aesthetic experiences– games which strike us visually and tonally on the level of a good film or painting. Independent Danish studio PlayDead’s Limbo can definitely be counted among these. Everything about this title, from its stark, nostalgic opening title [...]

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Alexander Ocias’s “Loved”: Identity, Subjugation and Confrontation

03.27.11 – 4:14 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Multimedia Reviews. When it comes down to it, Loved has very little to do with that particular emotion at all. But it has everything to do with control, guilt and abuse done in the name of it. Follow the game’s unnamed, ungendered narrator and your player avatar will come to harm; disobey, [...]

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Dragon Age II: Making the Case for “Quality” Games

03.27.11 – 3:05 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Multimedia Reviews. At this point, I am uncertain there is anything I can really say about Dragon Age II that isn’t found half-buried in my deluge of running commentary to my friends made over the course of my two playthroughs. It’s fantastic, it’s horrible. It’s brilliant, it’s ridiculous. This is the best [...]

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LittleBigPlanet 2 is Democratized Play for Rich People’s Kids

03.27.11 – 12:35 am

Reposted from Popmatters Multimedia Reviews. At this point there is very little effusive praise I could throw LittleBigPlanet 2‘s way that would be new, so let’s attempt to do without it. If you are at all familiar with the franchise it should come as no surprise that UK devs Media Molecule’s latest work is a [...]

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