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Review: Dragon Age II

Review: Dragon Age II

BioWare's latest role-playing epic knows how to seduce you, except when it really doesn't. J. Nicholas Geist writes on the game's fourth-wall-breaking manuevers and the issue of acceptance.

May 13 Reviews
Review: Torchlight

Review: Torchlight

What is the true endpoint of a good dungeon crawl? Is it contentment and riches, or some perversion of the two? We dig into Torchlight in search of truths.

Apr 21 Reviews
On Violence, Remembered and Forgotten

On Violence, Remembered and Forgotten

Last year, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Schwarzenegger v. EMA, the case in which videogames entered into their epic battle with Arnold Schwarzenegger, not in his capacity as Conan, the Barbarian; or his capacity as T-800, the murderous Terminator robot; or his capacity as Ben Richards, who kills people on a game show; or his capacity as Dutch, who kills people and also aliens; or his capacity as Douglas Quaid, who kills people on Mars; or his capacity as Mr. Freeze, who kills people with ice; but in his capacity as Governor of the State of California.

Feb 15 Articles
Here I Am, All Dressed in Drakeskin

Here I Am, All Dressed in Drakeskin

Sometimes, I see myself through the eyes of my non-gamer readers. My mother-in-law, say. I see a competent writer who, for reasons incomprehensible, devotes himself to writing about a hobby that is immature at best and an active waste of time and talent at worst. Readers like my mother-in-law likely see it as uninteresting or irrelevant, and I can empathize. I imagine many a spouse, boyfriend, aunt, and boss has picked up a copy of Kill Screen and asked the damnable question I ask my students all the time: Why is this worth writing about?

Dec 24 Articles

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