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Without even reading it, it takes so much guts to review game you know is guaranteed 9+ across the board for just existing and meet it honestly with critique you believe in.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a great way to introduce yourself to the series, but might not be for those who didn't love Breath of the Wild.
Read our review here:
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I think in time some of you will be quite embarrassed about how you've reported on this game
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I have seen no story which reported this investigate what the abuse was, offer evidence, reach out for a quote, or mention the (quite important!) fact that just before he says he's "bummed out", he defends Roman Polanski, Michael Jackson, and calls trans people the "alt-left"
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Update - have read it, very well argued review that approaches the game from an angle that will resonate with a lot of players
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I know a lot of this 'drama' is 'Twitter bullshit', I know some trans people are fixating on this game and go too far, I know you want to stay out of it for an easy life. I know you might not agree with a boycott. Even with that, a lot of you have fallen way below par
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Baldur’s Gate is great and all but this year kinda stinks
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I was going to avoid the review drama, but for IGN's review to state 'As critics, our job is to answer the question of whether or not we find the game to be fun to play and why' is a dismal misunderstanding of what a critic is. Whatever score was given, whatever people think 1/4
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Wrote about the ‘protect kids’ crowd failing their own mantra as they rally against cancel culture to protect one of their own being outed as an an actual groomer
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1. X
2. Everything Everywhere All At Once
3. RRR
4. The Batman
5. Fresh
Now that we’re halfway through the year, what are your favorite movies of 2022 so far?
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For Polygon, I took a look at the weird, edgy, parasocial, and deliberately controversial marketing of Cyberpunk 2077.
Cyberpunk 2077’s marketing has catered to the edgier part of the CD Projekt Red fanbase, and so far, it appears to have worked.
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@Jamie_A_C
BOTW is in a weird position of being very polarising and somehow universally beloved, so I think this is a really important perspective
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Right, new job tweet time. As many of you know, our Editor-in-Chief
@MckKirk
is leaving
@thegamerwebsite
at the end of the month, having fulfilled his purpose of giving Deathloop a perfect score. Starting then, I'll be taking over as TheGamer's Editor-in-Chief.
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...the fact they scored the game well does not matter to me at all here. It's bigger than this game. It's extremely worrying that the biggest outlet in the world thinks our job is 'game fun? y/n', and just a week after explaining why big games all deserve at least 7/10
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Exciting news: for the first time in our history, TheGamer has a full freelance feature budget. We’ll be paying between $75-250 per piece depending on the work involved. Mainly looking for timely and/or social oriented op-eds, or reported stories. (1/3)
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...of the game and choose to review it is one part of it. So much broader is the biggest and most influential gaming outlet in the world not only believes fun factor is 'our job' as critics, but pushes that view onto their readers. I have read some excellent reviews at IGN 2/4
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@Doctor_Cupcakes
Don't worry, I'm sure there will be news stories any day now about how I'm getting bullied for my opinion on this game
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As promised, I avoided a Twitter rant on the wizard game.
I wrote about it for Polygon instead.
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by a variety of fantastic critics. But surely this review was checked even more than usual, and this quote appears in a pullout box which would have the most scrutiny of all. It's a baffling and disheartening thing to read. Maybe I'm just shouting about nowt here, but 3/4
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The first Hellblade is one of my favourite Xbox games.
The second Hellblade is not.
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Today, I am Gamer
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I would 100% rather have gaming websites call shit games shit than this uncritical Bezos PR
Blue Origin's first crewed flight onboard their New Shepard rocket has made its 100km journey above the Kármán line, into the lower reaches of space.
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@schillingc
I could not disagree more, it scored 97! One of the highest scores of all time and everyone’s just going ‘yeah, sounds about right’. Everyone who got this review from the moment they started knew if they scored it below 9 they’d be an outlier
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Pretty much everyone’s favourite World Cup is the one when they were ten years old, please I can’t take another nine months of arguing over the best ball/goal/match/logo/mascot/tournament/blades of grass without anyone acknowledging football was just more fun as a kid
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Right, I'm not doing one of those 'record yourself changing your bio' things, but I've got a **new job**. From Monday 15th I'll be joining
@thegamerwebsite
as a features editor.
In lieu of flowers please send likes and comments such as "legend" and "you'll smash it"
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It’s been a while since I tweeted this, so a reminder that TheGamer is open for freelance pitches. We’re mainly looking for analytical writing or reportage, and aim to help people get their first major byline, though experienced writers are welcome too. Rates etc in thread
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I'm very proud of where TheGamer is today, but we have hidden from our problematic history too often.
As the site continues its efforts to move beyond those days, I thought it was important to address where we were, where we are, and where we're going
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I feel very strongly about the Spirittea/paid coverage discourse and think it’s a sign that something quite bad has shifted under our feet while no one was watching.
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@Calfixie
What extra context do you feel this adds? I state multiple times my issue is not with this game in particular or with the decision to cut JKR from score consideration. My point is that 'is this game fun' is an incredibly shallow question for a critic to ask
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For
@gaymingmag
, I spoke to a few people from
@TellMeWhyGame
about creating Tyler Ronan, the first trans lead from a major studio; lead writer
@missdoomcookie
, consultant and GLAAD representative
@NickGAdams
, and Xbox narrative director Clay Carmouche
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As a trans person who really connected with Lev’s story, I needed to write about how the discourse does him a disservice. As I say in the article, it’s perfectly fine to not like the story or ND, or to not want to play, but Lev is more nuanced than his discourse rn
Lev, The Last of Us Part 2, and imperfectly important representation (spoilers)
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@schillingc
Putting it that way implies gaming has a major problem with scoring everything too high, so when a game comes along that is expected to be the best in a generation we have nowhere to go when we routinely hand out 9s and 10s every month
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@fperezroa
That's a fine way to think as a reader but you deserve better than 'is it fun?'. Is it challenging? Well paced? Does it reward risk/encourage conservative play? Too similar to existing games? And a million others. 'Fun' is too reductive and should not be in a definitive statement
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An older woman leading a video game is already enough to get me on board, but if Selene being able to talk to her own corpses - past and future - isn't enough for you to pay attention to Returnal, I don't know what is...
Returnal's narrative director spoke to us about Selene, the older female protagonist at the core of the game.
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@BoppinGabi
I found it on the full stream, about ten seconds before the clip doing the rounds
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In some surprising (and perhaps enraging) news, I was on
@notaxation
’s recent podcast. My logic, which I’m sure some of you will disagree with, is that Moriarty reaches the sphere who think journalists are part of a cabal and therefore frequently send my writers hate messages 1/2
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TheGamer's 2022 Game of the Year is
@CitizenSleeper
TheGamer’s Game of the Year has been officially decided. It’s cooler than your Game of the Year
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Some guy in his spare time made a cool concept and we all decided to be mean about it.
Games Twitter is just the worst sometimes.
If PlayStation makes a new PSP, Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch won’t stand a chance
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@BaldBreens
Imagine how good a review like this would have felt when those God of War 10/10s dropped. Join me, Dave. Feel the love.
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Making my
@launcher
Washington Post debut today with a piece on pregnancy in game development.
Spoke to a lot of fantastic devs and writers for this one with some important things to say about the games industry
Pregnant women working in the video game industry face extraordinary challenges — above and beyond the usual travails of game development.
Important new story by
@FiveTacey
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@Xarallei
Maybe that’s the point, that these two entities can’t be separated. A bad year for devs is a bad year for gaming as a whole even if the pandemic backlog means we get more hits
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So happy to make my
@VG247
debut with a piece I’ve been working on for two months. Big thanks to
@august__black
,
@TellMeWhyGame
and
@Mermaids_Gender
for their interviews and
@MckKirk
for the opportunity!
Meet Tyler Ronan, the first transgender triple-A video game protagonist
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Without revealing your age, who was the very first Serie A footballer you adored?
🇮🇹 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏/𝟐𝟐 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐀 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐓 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲!
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Working with Jade since she joined the site has been fantastic and I can’t wait to see what she does in the lead role.
Also, please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this makes us the biggest gaming website ever to have two trans women in leading roles at the same time.
Once
@cianmaher0
flies the nest I'll be taking over as Lead Features Editor over at
@thegamerwebsite
.
I'm being given too much power but I'm so excited to help shape the site's vision even further alongside an incredible team.
Big shoes to fill so let's smash it! 🙌
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I would say my favourite thing about Brie Larson is how angry she makes chuds, but she’s so likeable that’s actually way down the list.
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TheGamer has given a lot of people their first editorial role and has a remote, global staff, so we encourage pitches from new writers and aim to publish a diverse range of voices. RT and encourage people to pitch!
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Being online right now is just living in perpetual fear that one of my unproblematic faves will tweet a picture of a monkey
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I asked Geoff not to mention it, but the really big story of The Game Awards 2021 is that for the first time in our history,
@thegamerwebsite
was a member of the jury. All the good picks were us and the bad picks were someone else.
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@JezCorden
We’ve been very lucky this year with major releases, but I do get the feeling it is just luck and this consistent quality cannot exist long term in an environment like this
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@GenePark
It’s the opposite of the Academy though really, this panel would put Black Adam and Thor: Love & Thunder up for Best Picture because they made money and look flashy
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This is just a very small sample of what you have to deal with if you criticise Harry Potter. JK Rowling knows she attracts these followers and never calls them out, she only offers dogwhistles and support while keeping her hands clean
You are on the side of the bad guys
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People are getting completely the wrong idea from seeing what they want to see and not reading the article. The PR firm was specifically buying reviews from self-published blogs and then not using negative ones - actual professional critics are not part of this
A PR firm has been manipulating the Rotten Tomatoes movie scores for over 5 years by paying critics directly
(via
@vulture
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Can’t believe The Last Of Us Part II really ends with an asteroid destroying Earth, leaving just two giraffes left
One of them turns to their friend and says ‘I guess we’re the last of us’
The other one says ‘Part two’
Truly the most beautiful moment in gaming
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I’m so glad I got to write this today, I tried so hard to get someone to let me talk about the lake scene in Tell Me Why last year.
There’s no chance this will be my best performing post - even best today, probably - but I’m happy I finally got to put down thoughts on it.
Tell Me Why's first episode in now free; here's why one scene in particular made it one of my favourite games of last year
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I fucking love my website
We’re going to stop covering Activision and Blizzard games until there’s some real change and this gaslighting bollocks ends. We’ll cover the ongoing news regarding the current story, but we won’t be covering the games.
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Normalising screaming at movies is the worst thing Marvel ever did
If your theater didn’t sound like a rock concert by this point, you had the wrong crowd.
#SpiderManWatchParty
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I’m so sick of this picture. It’s just a woman saying ‘tell me some cool games’. It’s embarrassing how many of you have opinions on it beyond just answering the question
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Remember when I said I could write 1000 words doing a deep dive on Cyberpunk 2077’s posters? Oh, how we laughed!
Anyway, I went and did it for
@WIRED
. The posters are grotesque and garish and genius; they’re Cyberpunk 2077 in a bottle
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Wow, the New Yorker published a great Miyamoto interview and literally nothing else happened in games journalism today!
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With The Last Of Us 2 looming, I hope some places have queer women lined up to review it.
I know there’ll be a lot of interesting crit to read afterwards, but I’m talking about ground level, going on the record, ‘our site is elevating a queer voice’ reviews.
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I don't do 5/5 very often, in fact this is my first one at TheGamer. Astro Bot is that good, and it's not just a cheap cameo fest either
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For this piece, I spoke to two Inquisitors, a Hawke, Zevran, Josephine, Traynor, Jack, Reyes, Kesh, and FemShep to find out just how BioWare knits together its team so effectively.
This was the last freelance piece I worked on and I think it’s a pretty good sign off!
Enjoying
#MassEffectLegendaryEdition
and want to know how that squad chemistry came about? Voice actors from Mass Effect and Dragon Age spoke to us about how the
@bioware
magic was created
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BREAKING: Harry Potter game discourse has closed
Hope you got all of those hot takes out of your system but it’s officially over
Remaining acceptable conversation topics include:
- Why you should play Citizen Sleeper
- Bayonetta voice actor stuff
- How TheGamer is very cool
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It’s just so funny to me that Brie Larson gave the award to Abby from The Last Of Us.
Just straight up Gamer murder
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It seems like ScarJo is right in her lawsuit, but her argument is that more poor people should have been forced to risk COVID to watch her in a comic book movie.
She’s not your feminist icon, she never was.
Johansson vs. Disney is a millionaire vs. billionaires, fighting over who profits from sending poorer people to the cinema during a pandemic
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I started working in games media this year, and despite the disaster that is 2020, it's gone pretty well. I have a few things to wrap up before Christmas, but I think it's time for a highlight reel.
Let's start with baby's first feature:
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I don’t always write for VG24/7, but when I do, it’s always about gender stereotypes and gets flooded with comments from people who haven’t read the article.
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Looking to speak to any games developers/designers who worked on games while pregnant or as young mothers.
Working on a piece on motherhood in games, DM or email at address in bio
#journorequest
RTs appreciated
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I’m making my
@USgamernet
debut today, talking about Caper In The Castro, the game which beat TLOU2 to the ‘first gay protagonist’ punch by 31 years
Never Mind The Last Of Us, Here's The Real Game With The First LGBT+ Protagonist
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Not all the big games are the good games.
If films were judged to the same narrow standards as video games Suicide Squad would have won Best Picture.
We give too much respect to big budgets and care too little about what a game has to say.
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I’m putting together a piece for
@thegamerwebsite
about the ways games developers have been influenced by the Tomb Raider series - devs, if this is you and you’re up for a short chat some time in the future, my DMs are open and my email’s in my bio
RTs appreciated
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The right will hate this and call it woke, but we shouldn’t let this become left versus right. We should all just agree it’s very stupid.
Roald Dahl - 2001 authorized Puffin edition vs 2022 authorized Puffin edition.
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Making my
@gamingbible
/
@ladbible
debut today, with an interview with Red Dead Redemption 2's Micah Bell (aka
@TheBlomquist
) about why the camp rat might by misunderstood, and why being bad feels so good
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Everyone who previewed Hogwarts Legacy and then slapped a sentence underneath it all about how trans people are valid, thank you for all that you do. You are the reason the community keeps fighting. Bless you all.
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For PC Gamer, I wrote about transness in Cyberpunk 2077. Some parts are actually better than I expected, but then other parts are a lot worse.
I've written a few pieces on Night City's world building now, and it's certainly rich, but there are a lot of areas where it falls down
It's two steps forwards, two steps back for transness in Cyberpunk 2077.
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Birthday attire.
My birthday is tomorrow, please save all well wishes until then and concentrate solely on the outfit thank you
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Oh hey that’s mine!
Everyone should definitely look out for
@WagaduChronicle
, talking to the creator for this piece was fascinating and insightful.
Best of 2020: How deeply personal RPG The Wagadu Chronicles explores new realms of Afrofantasy
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What a nice surprise to wake up to. I’ve read some great features this year, so winning for my Cyberpunk piece means a lot.
I’d especially encourage you to read Nat’s Latina’s In FPS’ and Liana’s Yakuza pieces as well.
It's time for the last award of
#TheGoodies2020
based on an individual work. It's Best Feature. And you can find the winner here 👇
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Do yourself a favour and read Mike Drucker’s first column on TheGamer. It’s so spicy I had to have a glass of milk afterwards
In his first weekly column,
@MikeDrucker
welcomes you to Game Company, where HR does everything to protect its employees - especially those accused of things by other employees.
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You're not getting a selfie for
#TransDayOfVisibility
, you're getting 1k word deep dive into one of my favourite characters from last year in one of the most polarising game. Enjoy
For
#TransDayOfVisibility
we took a look at Claire, Cyberpunk 2077, and what they mean for representation in gaming
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Far Cry’s director told us he didn’t want to make a “political statement about Cuba specifically,” unprompted, in a question not about politics. We reported that. Some seem to think we were unfair.
We’ll see next week how political the game where you recruit funny alligators is.
Far Cry 6 narrative director Navid Khavari accuses
@thegamerwebsite
's Jade King of misquoting him, cutting his quote in half to make it seem like he said "the game isn't making a political statement".
A lot of outrage emerged over that alleged misquote...
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This is my first year in games journalism and I’ve written for 35 different outlets, including some of my favourite sites I’ve read for years.
this year was rough - brag on yourself a bit :)! what did you accomplish this year?
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I hereby apologise to all TERFs. I’ve been playing Switch Sports online and it turns out trans women do absolutely fucking dominate
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I wrote about how and why Barret is FF7R’s real star.
After the Aerith piece last week, just need to do a deep dive on Tifa and Cloud next! Goddamn this is a good game
One of the best things about Final Fantasy 7 Remake is that it understands Barret is the real hero of the story.
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If you're writing about sexism, racism, and bullying in the workplace, you should not be opening with two paras about how much you love the games. Just report the story.
Since I'm not a lil subtweeting bitch, I'm talking specifically about this coverage.
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LGBT tolerance "going backwards" amid rising hate crimes, anti-homophobia campaigner says
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Mario Kart 9 is just a complete non-story, right?
Might start leaking that GTA 6 is “in development” and “will contain guns” or that EA is “actively working on FIFA 23” which “has some football stuff”
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We can’t spend a week trashing Forspoken then jump out of our chairs for “you’re probably wondering how I got here…” waffle.
The bar for games writing is on the floor.
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Hey, guess who decided to get too personal and overshare on main?
It's me. I did.
As a trans person playing Celeste, the toxic part of my past identified with Badeline a little too much for comfort
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