Category Archives: Reviews

Always in Alpha Podcast, Ep. 2: Titanfall and Hype

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Gaines Hubbell

We’re back for another Always in Alpha Podcast to talk about Titanfall and its hype–just in time for you to listen before Titanfall comes out on Xbox 360. Streaming:

Posted in Candice Lanius, Criticism, Gaines Hubbell, Laquana Cooke, Nick Hanford, Podcasts, Reviews | Tagged amount of content, content, critic, critic-journalist, criticism, FPS, game mechanic, genre expectations, hype, journalism, journalist, Kotaku, Miguel Sicart, Podcast, Polygon, Titanfall, Xbox One | 2 Comments

The Wolf Among Us, Episode 2: A Nick, Gaines, and Stephanie Review

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Nick Hanford

From Nick: I’ve been thinking about games recently through the lens of Objective Game Reviews and their ridiculous idea of objectivity’s applicability to games, so I’d like to start with an objective game review of The Wolf Among Us, Episode … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaines Hubbell, Nick Hanford, Reviews, Stephanie Jennings | Tagged Choice, Media Studies, Objective Game Review, Review, Smoke and Mirrors, Telltale, Telltale Games, The Wolf Among, The Wolf Among Us: Smoke and Mirrors | 1 Comment

Fate of the World: An Epistemological Review

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Erik Bigras

My work leads me to discover some very strange games. After Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus, I’d like to offer you another epistemological review of one such games. By epistemological, I mean that I won’t necessarily be following the traditional formalisms of … Continue reading →

Posted in Erik Bigras, Reviews | Tagged Arjun Appadurai, Arturo Escobar, Biopolitics, Card Game, Climate change, Computational modeling, Corporatism, Educational game, Environmental projections, Environmental science, Fate of the World, Foucault, Game Mechanics, Global politics, Global warming, Michel Foucault, Neolibralism, Scientism, Starflight, Transnational corporation, Video games | 9 Comments

Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus: An Epistemological Review

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Erik Bigras

I return after the holiday season with a confession: I’m not, strictly speaking, a game studies scholar. Rather, I’ve been dabbling and stumbling professionally in this particular academic arena for close to a decade, now. Formally, I’m trained as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Erik Bigras, Reviews | Tagged Alternative model, Anthropology as Cultural Critique, Asthma, Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus, Dominant model, Donna Haraway, Educational games, Etiology, George Marcus, Michael Fischer, Pathology, Pharmaceutical model, Situated knowledges, Video games | 3 Comments

The Wolf Among Us: A Gaines, Nick, and Stephanie Review

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Gaines Hubbell

So, what’s the deal with The Wolf Among Us? Well, I’m only just now getting around to playing through The Walking Dead, so I called in some reinforcements on this one: Stephanie and I did two play-throughs together, and Nick … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaines Hubbell, Nick Hanford, Reviews, Stephanie Jennings | Tagged Bill Willingham, Fables, Fabletown, Formalism, Gaines Hubbell, Game review, Illusion of choice, Nick Hanford, Noir, Point-and-click, Review, Stephanie Jennings, Telltale Games, The Wolf Among Us, Walking Dead | 11 Comments

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Category Archives: Reviews

Always in Alpha Podcast, Ep. 2: Titanfall and Hype

The Wolf Among Us, Episode 2: A Nick, Gaines, and Stephanie Review

Fate of the World: An Epistemological Review

Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus: An Epistemological Review

The Wolf Among Us: A Gaines, Nick, and Stephanie Review

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