January 10th
…monstrosity in games alternately along gender/misogyny and cosmic/racist axes.
- Game Log: Tales of Berseria – Digital Ephemera Dan Cox weighs tropes and tensions of femininity and monstrosity in an uncommon feminine-led installment in the Tales series of JRPGs.
- Zarf Updates: Four (or five) recent Lovecraftians Andrew Plotkin explores the mechanical and thematic diversities to be found among games associated with a Lovecraftian, cosmic horror influence, as well as the various ways in which these games address or don’t address the racism inexorably tied to the tradition.
“A lot of Lovecraftian games start out with
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