Reposted from PopMatters Moving Pixels. LittleBigPlanet 2 might have unintentionally oriented itself toward a more elite playerbase than it realized, but you can’t mistake the good pedagogical intentions of its developers. These games are meant as Western child-rearing in a nutshell, deliberately multicultural and gender-inclusive, actively encouraging self-discovery and mutable identification. There’s just the little [...]
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The World Ends with You (Square Enix, DS)
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Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
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The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra (Nickelodeon)Listening To
Marianas Trench - Masterpiece Theater
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Ace Attorney (dir Takashi Miike)
