Author: Eli Cugini

  • How can games engage with the complex realities of mental health?

    How can games engage with the complex realities of mental health?

    [ad_1] The idea of a video game about mental illness can feel like an oxymoron; we think of video games as fun, bombastic and progressive, and mental illness as miserable, colourless and static. But games that convey the experience of depression and grief – particularly indie games – have flourished in the past…

  • Pride Week: On Difficult Queer Games

    Pride Week: On Difficult Queer Games

    [ad_1] Hello! Once again Eurogamer is marking Pride Month with a week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming. Today, Eli Cugini revisits Christine Love’s Ladykiller in a Bind and argues for more tricky games about bad gays. When I changed my name to Elia in 2021, the first game I…