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2020: Communal Play and Being Alone
When I first pitched this end of the year list, I had a certain idea in mind. I played a lot of PlayStation 2 games this year so I was set to write…
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Cole Henry
2020: The Year I Learned to Love Stealing Board Games
By far, my GOTY for 2020 is Tabletop Simulator. There’s no game I put nearly as many hours into this year, 375, to be precise, and certainly no game…
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Chris
2020: The Problem is Capitalism
When this year began, I intended, as I always do, to catch up on my backlog. My initial docket was full of dads: God of War (2018), Nier, and The Last…
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Maddi Butler
2020: Year of the Jackbox
One of the strongest memories I have of this year before the pandemic was attending a yearly friend get together at the PAX South convention in San…
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Jack Sammons
2020: Games to Play at the End of the World
Looking back, it’s clear I was pulled to two types of games this year: games about cycles and games about relationships. Ends and touch, these have…
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Autumn Wright
2020: Flickers of Apocalypse
It’s not what you think. Apocalypse, in its modern definition, means destruction, devastation, the end of all things. However, in its original meaning…
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Grace Benfell

December 2020

Diamond Dust: Final Fantasy XV Is My Video Game Comfort Food
From the first push of the broken-down Regalia, I was charmed.
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Maddi Butler

November 2020

World(s) of Wonder
How Isekai Consumed the Sword & Sorcery Genre
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austin jones
Medusa's Laugh - 11/23/2020 - Past and Future
Medusa's Laugh is a weekly newsletter thematically curating music and writing about games for your inbox.
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austin jones
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Waverly
CowBelts!: Final Fantasy V - Part 2
Cowbelts! is a series where Austin and Waverly attempt to play through every game that Tetsuya Nomura worked on.
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Waverly
It’s cuffing season and I don’t know how to cope
On Heart of the Woods
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Autumn Wright
Medusa's Laugh - 11/14/2020 - Tavern Scene
Medusa's Laugh is a weekly newsletter thematically curating music and writing about games for your inbox.
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Waverly
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austin jones
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