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December 10th

…of articles that centre the entanglement of games within larger power structures and frameworks, often for the worse.

  • A review of the Dubai Police COP28 mobile game (normal) | every frame per second Foxbox never finds a human presence in a serious (?) game about a human problem.
  • War Games Are Inherently Political For Muslims and Arabs | Kotaku Alyssa Mercante talks to Muslim & Arab developers and critics about the distorted ludic narratives of a caricatured Middle East that normalize real-world atrocities.

““For as long as I can remember, video games have used

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March 10th

…Intercorporeality, Erotic Cybernetics, and Becoming the Input | cohost MorganH’s theory of erotic play interactivity–including but not limited to adult games–justifies this long pullquote.

“It is important to not misconstrue the heightened complexity and corporeality of adult games as being of some kind of ero-Edenic virtual paradise where players and their game avatars are unified in enlightened beatitude. Pornographic games can be as rife with misogyny and racism as they can center egalitarian and queer narratives. The hegemonic, heterosexual white masculine figure is still the dominant avatar in the adult game imaginary, and no amount of wireless…