Category: Features

Four Great Video Game Composers

This article can also be found (with additional entries by other writers) at The Yorker, here. It can sometimes feel that soundtrack composers don’t get a lot of credit. Unlike with the general music industry, there’s comparatively little focus paid to those …

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Game Design – Lucky Number Thirteen

This article can also be found on PixelxCore, here. Introduction It’s been quite a few years since Final Fantasy XIII was released. It was a big moment for Square Enix – their flagship series was entering the next generation of consoles; and …

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Have You Heard – StooShe and Bluey Robinson

This is a partial version of a feature found at The Yorker, here. StooShe are very much an amalgamation of pop culture from a very specific subculture. Their name derived from the slang term ‘stush’ meaning ‘an air of superiority’; and in …

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Games Retail: A Love Story

When I was 8, working in a games shop was my dream job. You could play all the newest games for free, and you could tell other people what the good games were! Finally people would listen to me when I said …

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Location: Always the Urbanite

This article is a Destructoid Bloggers Request, found here. I love living in the city – while many resent the crowded streets, the tall buildings and the subtle background notes of consumerism and pollution, it’s what I grew up around, and I …

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Alcohol Infusions and You

It seems like a common trope for university freshmen to make ‘Skittles Vodka’. Depending on how they go about the process, it results in some pleasantly colourful booze or a strange sludgy mess; but there’s a solid idea there. If you have …

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Dating Sims: Romance for those who don’t know better

This article is hosted on The Yorker, found here. Dating Simulators. It’s a genre that’s been around longer than you might think, surprisingly constrained to obscure Japanese titles, and even then, ones essentially indie developed and distributed for DOS. For the uninitiated, …

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The Language of Hip-Hop: A Lot More Than ‘Ass’

This article was done for the Phonograph, can be found here. Okay, so we live in a world where Big Sean can release a song called “Ass”, where the lyrics consist mostly of just that word. Granted, if you’ve been paying attention to Top-40s …

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Winter Cooking: Beer & Beef Stew

This article can also be found at The Yorker here. Note, and Disclaimer: Standard cooking is really not my style – I feel that knowing some basic cooking theory (how to bake, how to season, how not to burn things) will supersede …

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