This is brilliant; love the extra effort to flesh out the world of Zero Parades. www.thegamer.com/zero-parades...

Zero Parades Releases Tabletop One-Shot For Free

ZA/UM has released a free prequel one-shot for Zero Parades, set at the Palace of Culture during Nestor's reign.

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No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.” JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”

We hereby conduct this post-mortem.

Mass Effect 3: The Best Way To Say Goodbye To Friends

We hereby conduct this post-mortem.

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Me out front ready to lose to Aurora

Hey, everybody. I uh. Hate that I have to do this. I'd always hoped I never would. But after what's gone on with work, I'm officially At That Point. So, if you could share this around, I'd be deeply appreciative. Thanks. gofund.me/80ed923c3

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life aint been right since I lost to a Diego Maradona-managed Melbourne City via a Will Grigg penalty in the Asian Champions League semi-finals on Football Manager 2017

KIM KITSURAGI - Well... except that one time when he stopped to sing karaoke. Which, by the way -- I have to disagree with you, Mr. Vicquemare -- was a valiant effort. He really sang his heart out.

The Paris Major was incredible.

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Mechanically, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies doesn't stray too far from Disco Elysium. However, the narrative and characters are engrossing, and it's full of all the cultural commentary and esoteric goodness that helped make its predecessor so great.

Jade King@konayma6.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The circumstances behind Zero Parades: For Dead Spies are pretty complicated, but despite all that it still manages to be an incredibly nuanced and thought provoking RPG. Here's @crustypants.bsky.social's review breaking down everything it does so well: - www.thegamer.com/zero-parades...

I once spoke to a North Korean dissident who told me that a part of him misses how simple life was there, and how he's never been able to capture that sense of community in a post-escape world (1/2).

Maybe you should *stop* obsessing about your own -- and other people's -- sexuality? Feels like it’s about time to do that. You’ve thought about this for *eight hours*?! Not only should you stop, you should tell Kim you've stopped obsessing about other people's sexuality too.

I had the pleasure of chatting with Mikael about @remedygames.com's most ambitious title yet at Gamescom LATAM.

Control Resonant's Creative Director On Design Direction, A New Protagonist And Financial Pressure

Mikael Kasurinen believes Control Resonant is the culmination of everything he's ever wanted to create.

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some hobbits are trying to cancel the dark lord sauron?

My interview with @chrisbodegard.bsky.social is live over on TheGamer!

Christoffer Bodegård Explores The Politics Behind Esoteric Ebb

Bodegård discusses the contemporary issues underpinning his politically charged narrative RPG.

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YOU - I can't give up. I have to keep going, for Revachol...

I'm not leaving that Wasteland until it's utopia.

I've Been Playing Pokemon Pokopia For Weeks And I Haven't Left The First Area

I'm incapable of leaving a job unfinished.

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Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

Replaced is a stunning reflection of our own society, highlighting the dangers of allowing rationality to triumph over human emotion and decency. My review below.

The far right co-opting every protest because their own beliefs are so unpopular is pathetic.

I spoke with the narrative team of the upcoming action platformer Replaced about the themes underpinning the game's post-apocalyptic alternate history United States.

Replaced's Narrative Team On Atmosphere, Dehumanisation And Environmental Storytelling

Sad Cat's narrative team spoke with us about the themes that underpin Replaced's world.

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A creative no longer being allowed to tell stories in a world they've been incrementally creating for their entire life is an unbelievable tragedy. Regardless of how the court battles go, ZA/UM should relinquish the rights back to Robert unless they're completely amoral (they are).

The Making of Disco Elysium: Part Six - Aftermath

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I do think there's something pretty telling in the fact that the average reaction to an AI-generated image is mild disgust, and the reaction to someone's art is "that's awesome." I think it goes as deep as the human spirit.

If you play the same person over and over again, both of your movements and micro decisions adapt to one another. It's like active storytelling, a fascinating ebb and flow.

Box@boxchan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

fighting games are quite something, losing against a cpu is very frustrating, but losing against another player is kind of exiting, even when i was loosing a lot just now but that feeling of you adapting to a new thing and seeing you opponent reacting to it, that is something special

I think my biggest gaming hot take Is Mass Effect 3 wasn't nearly as bad as people said it was Sure the final segment could have been far better.. but everything up until the end of the games quarian/geth arc, was pretty decent imo

Esoteric Ebb centres its entire identity and narrative around an upcoming election and ensures the player is politically informed, whether they like it or not. In a world where political participation is giving way to apathy, that's incredibly refreshing.

Esoteric Ebb Is One Of The Few Games That Champions Democracy

In a world where political participation is in constant decline, Esoteric Ebb puts the democratic process front and centre.

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I was a little late to the party with Requiem, but I have my gripes with the ending, especially in how the game devalues both of its villains, who had real potential.

Resident Evil Requiem's Ending Was Too Silly For Its Own Good

Resident Evil Requiem is a fantastic game that doesn't quite stick the landing.

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The narrative that aspiring professional players are troglodytes with zero social skills and zero self-awareness is overblown. It's just using the infantilisation of young men as a vehicle for sexism, plain and simple, and the comments are proof that the spin is working.