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On Problematic Art
Helen Lewis at the New Statesman asked me what I thought of her liking GTA V. This is my answer. For the record, I worked on GTA IV, and I am a fan of the series, and my favourite one is Vice. I...
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In The Frame
Surprise, this month I have mostly been thinking about men. Read on if you want to know about the exhausting amount of stuff I have been up to recently, as well as a few thoughts on Dishonored. Much...
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New Is Old
September was a month where the new looked exactly as the old; where things changed and yet stayed the same. Elizabeth and I made a comic for Kotaku about how games graphics are improving so much that...
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People As Things
It is very late at night, and I have too much work to do to be up this late and waste tomorrow into the Brighton smirr and too-thick coffee. But I have been thinking so often about the following piece...
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Condemnation & Iteration
The critical process of games is different from the critical process of other media. Games can now be continually iterated on, even after they have been released, because they are usually entirely in...
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Pick Up Anything Of Use
This week I wrote something on the adventure game, and its relevancy. Sometimes I think I’m stuck in an adventure game, and I retrace my steps and talk to people again to reassure myself. And all...
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What I Learned This Year
All pictures from Fullbright’s http://rekall.tumblr.com/archive, click image to visit For the purposes of self-reflection I have written this highly inadvisable blog post about what I learned this...
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January: Storm Weather
The year has been wiped clean again; when it rains now I think about going outside to kick around in it instead of staying in stasis with my 3DS and Hakuoki. But I don’t go outside. I am thinking...
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Things get fucked up a lot and you forget why you first started writing. I taught a class at Confetti in how to tell stories in Twine recently, and ended with a Q&A. They often asked about...
View ArticleSpace, Time and The Guinness Clause
I’m starting to learn how to function ‘writing on the road’, so for my subscribers, and for anyone who is interested, here’s my wisdom so far. 1) SPACE Travelling anywhere is a wrench in your gut,...
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Categories: CommentaryI wrote this piece for The Guardian on Full Throttle recently. It went down okay for a slight return. I did get this comment though: This is because the strapline took my...
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