The Spieler
Trip HarrisonIncautiously probing the artistic horizons of game design.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 88 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Remembering the Battle Royale Genre
Happy Thursday, friends! Been a hell of a busy week and I had little time to write, so we’re falling back on an entry from my list of evergreen topics this week. Enjoy these reflections on one of gaming history’s more noteworthy trends, and...
The Game Where You Wipe Out Humanity for No Reason
STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB
If our country is attacked by nuclear bombs or by missiles, we do not know what targets will be chosen or how severe the assault will be… No part of the country can be considered safe from both the direc...
Resident Evil is a Great* Video Game Movie
EIGHTH TIME’S THE CHARM
Ya know, I’m old enough to remember when the idea of a movie based on a video game was nothing more than a big fucking joke to film industry producers and tastemakers. The famously awful (if enduringly charming) S...
Pentiment is a Fascinating, Brilliant Misfire
Heads up: it’s another unusually long one this week, and this review may be truncated in some email clients. If you read these as emails, check out the web version if it gets cut off.
EARLY-MODERN FAMILY
This one’s a doozy, so let me se...
On Storytelling Techniques Unique to Gaming
PENTIMENT TO BE
Well, after almost four years of obstinate procrastination, I’m finally getting around to playing Pentiment. For those unfamiliar, it’s a narrative adventure set in sixteenth-century Bavaria in which you investigate a ser...
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