For this week I went with the Stanley Parable, conveniently I already had it so I just had to load it up on steam to play it! Now what immediately stood out to me from the readings was “a great deal of pleasure for players can be derived from subverting…

For this week’s game journal I decided to play through A Closed World, a game that depicts the life of an LGBT youth as they must face the demons of societal expectations for who they are allowed to love. A tragic aspect of the game is that the demon’s that…

My two favorite things in the world are politics/social issues and video games for their ability to bring people together in massive shouting matches to determine which side is worse. For my analysis I’ve decided to use a game That I’ve spent around 200 hours playing and that is Fire…

For this week I decided to continue the Cyberpunk train as I felt like there’s a lot more to unpack. I spoke of glitches that were hilarious and more out of place but for this week I found a glitch that actually showed how the developers went above and beyond…

The way that I would describe a glitch in my own words, is that something happens that is not supposed to happen. “To put it more eloquently Menkman defines it as an unexpected and abnormal modus operandi, a break from (one of) the many flows (of expectations) within a technological…

For my game art I decided to watch Kara Gut’s intimacy mod, a rather bizarre experience of characters seemingly kissing and then flinging themselves off very high places. The purpose of this mod is a critique of the hypersexual modding culture of adding a sex mod to most every game…

For this week I decided to play Grand Theft Auto IV, and the mod I have chosen is called Natural Vision: Evolved, a graphics mod which completely overhauls the looks of the game. Now when GTA VI first came out the graphics were being praised for their beauty even back…

The game I’ve chosen to analyze this week is a that can be considered a staple of its series: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Now this game has been around since 2003 and is turning 18 years old soon and will be a legal adult that has to start paying…

I have chosen to talk about Genshin Impact for my gameplay journal. I wanted to write on it because despite my love for the game I noticed that it has fallen in line with a trend I have noticed with a lot of games lately, a sort of RNG based…