Author: Jay Castello
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How can a picture of flowers make you see games differently?
A city tour demonstrating the architecture of New York usually doesn’t need to specify that it’s “pacifist.” But when it takes place in Tom Clancy’s: The Division, avoiding violence is difficult. The digital tourists in Total Refusal’s film Operation Jane Walk carry rifles and tactical gear, whether they want to use them or not.…
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How Dorfromantik creates contested meanings of landscape
[ad_1] Hello! With Dorfromantik landing on Switch today, here’s a piece from Jay that takes a closer look at landscapes. If you’re interested in the Switch port itself, we’re running a piece on Saturday. I can’t ever get my Dorfromantik dioramas to look quite right. Other people seem to be able to make their…
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Ace Attorney’s forgotten game shows the strange place of fan localisations within fandom
[ad_1] After six years, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles got an official localisation in 2021. It was well received – Eurogamer gave it a recommended – and went on to sell half a million copies. By all accounts it was a success, and it finally aligned the Ace Attorney franchise’s releases inside and outside of…
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Meet the YouTubers turning speedruns into incredible stories • Eurogamer.net
[ad_1] When you watch a speedrun, you’re not really watching a single run. You’re watching a culmination of work: the glitch hunters who figured out how to skip parts of the game, the previous runners who learned how to move around as quickly as possible, and the countless practice hours of the person currently trying…