It’s difficult to forget your gender as a woman in gaming communities: condescension, suspicion, and disbelief reminding you every minute that you’re seen as separate from that catch-all “gamers”. Regardless, I’ve never been able to get away from games or my passion for them as a player, a writer, and...
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Talking animals? Check. Cute art style? Check. Tale about the fight between good and evil? Check. At first glance Zootropolis (2016) seems to be your typical piece of animated cinema – cutesy, offering platitudes of being nice and trying to find your way. But once you wander inside the cinema...
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[dropcap]S[/dropcap]trategy is one of the classic video game genres. There’s not much room for improvement – turn based or real time; building or resource management; invention or growth, most things have already been explored. However, there’s still room to put storytelling first and build mechanics contextually, and this is where...
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Boar Film reviews The Lobster, a strange, biting and distrubing parable on the human compulsion to couple together.
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Joanna Jakubowska reviews The Roadless Trip at Warwick Arts Centre
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[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e begin our Game of the Year countdown with one of the best games of the year that wins our Best Sports Game as well as perhaps one of the worst. It’s so plagued with bugs and glitches that it gets an award all of it’s own. Stay tuned in for...
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Boar Games Writers review PC games recently published by Warwick alumni. [divider] Induction – Bryan Gale I’m a big fan of puzzle games. Where AAA titles receive huge public support, puzzle gaming is something often kept to oneself; not because it’s antisocial, but it just isn’t exciting in the...
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[dropcap]D[/dropcap]o you think in-game choices should matter? Love dwelling over paths you could have or maybe should have taken? If so, you probably already know about episodic, story-focused gaming Life Is Strange, the brilliant finale of which came out two weeks ago. [divider] It’s tough to write concisely about Polarized....
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