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Get Your Game On: A Gay Girls’ Baseball Team and YouTube Woes

October 4, 2017

Happy October! What games are you playing lately? I played a bit of Hitman: Sniper, an Android and iOS game where you play as a sniper tasked with increasingly difficult challenges (e.g., kill a guard by making another guard fall onto them). It only has two maps, but for one dollar, it’s ...

Essays

Pick a Card: How Tarot Finds New Life in Inspired Games

October 2, 2017

This tarot-into-digital media topic will sound like a bit of a stretch. I’ll tell you right now, the art of tarot itself is a stretch—it’s an odd intersection of personal relatability and interpretation of cultural and situational symbols, either ending with you having a huge card collection or ...

Reviews

Unfortunately, Fighting Fantasy Legends Is An Exercise In Frustration

September 28, 2017

Fighting Fantasy Legends Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone Nomad Games Steam, iOS/Android I decided to play Fighting Fantasy Legends game because I misread the title and thought it was a Final Fantasy card game on Steam. It’s not either of those things. Fighting Fantasy Legends is ...

Reviews

Inverness Nights Reminds Us of the Perils of a Bad First Impression

September 25, 2017

Inverness Nights is a visual novel that follows the story of Tristam, a sellsword turned skilled tailor with an unusual talent for curing decay. The game begins in the aftermath of Tristam’s decision to use his unique powers to de-age his partner, Alasdair. With his social standing ...

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Get Your Game on Wednesday: Say Hello to Mario’s Nipples

September 20, 2017

Happy Wednesday! I return to you, exhausted from PAX and Rose City Comic Con, having played too many games to list. Currently I’m into Cook, Serve, Delicious!! 2, which is great if you like to chase real-life stress with fictional stress, which I do. On to the news!

Reviews

Life is Strange: Before The Storm Hits Close To Home

September 18, 2017

The smoke rolled in just after I finished Life is Strange: Before the Storm episode one, a reminder that huge swathes of the Pacific Northwest are burning. Washington and Oregon are swallowed up by thick clouds of smoke that look like the rain we’re famous for, except it’s hot and dry and ...

Reviews, Roundtables

WWAC’s PAX West Awards: Smooching Our Way Through The Show Floor

September 14, 2017

This year’s PAX West was a whirlwind, as always. With three of our writers on site for most of the convention, we decided it was in everyone’s best interests to wrap our favorites up in one tidy article, spotlighting the individual achievements of each.

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Get Your Game On Wednesday: Women, Wheels, And Consentacle

September 13, 2017

Howdy, gaming lovelies! Yesterday was some incarnation of #NationalVideoGameDay, possibly a real holiday, but more possibly a social media consumerism ploy. In any case, I say any reason to celebrate! Hopefully, you treated yourself to a nice round of special game time. If not, just make up ...

Opinion

Making the Cut: Defending The Jill Sandwich, Barry Burton Style

September 11, 2017

Making the Cut is a recurring series in which we defend the notoriously bad things we love about video games. Wonky mechanics, goofy cutscenes, poor characterization—we love it all, and we’re going to tell you why. I love the Jill sandwich scene, because I love Barry Burton.