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Another year gone. 2025 will mark three years of this infinitesimal site and four years of me being a professional video game critic. As I look back, I reminisce and wish that I wasn’t living so devilish, shit! The melancholy begins to set. In 2024 I became an NPR contributor (let’s see how...
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This Aguas Point’s article is a polemic. It’s also vague on purpose. The following was inspired by an engaging and lively conversation with the good folks in the Critical Distance Discord. *** For many of us, video games are a solitary activity. Just a bunch of hermits reveling in virtual...
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It’s common to try one’s hand at creating art as a hobby outside of work. “It’s wonderful to create” proclaimed Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. Creative hobbies are a fruitful endeavor for people to engage with, as well as for the revisioning of arts and culture towards a less elitist’...
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The content creator is the spectral job of our time. Take a minute to look around — everyone around creates content. At times it’s even comical to see how many people refer to themselves as such in the obligatory discussion of what one does. Video games as media are ripped fruit for creators to...
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“Everything that takes place on the screen — a Mutant attack, a powerpack munch, an asteroid cluster, plus noises, colour, maneuvering — is simply the machine’s response to information”. – Amis, Invasion of the Space Invaders, pg. 112 In 1982 director Steven Spielberg diagnosed enfant...