Minecraft is the most popular video game to this day. One of its hallmarks is its unbound territory that is free to explore by the player...
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Game Agency and its Establishment, Unintentionalities, and Boundaries
The impact of Digital Media: a contemporary view on history
Abstract: This essay aims to explore the impact of digital media on the perception of history, focusing on its effects on historical understanding, memory, and identity....
Continue reading...Podcast: Streams of Twitch with DutchTristan!
This is the first episode of a two-part podcast series about Twitch streaming. In this episode DutchTristan answers some burning questions about what streaming is all...
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In order to allow more people to experience the charm of video games, most games now have built-in filters for violent content, which means that if...
Continue reading...A guy like you should wear a warning: The root of Toxicity in League of Legends
After writing several draft posts for my last blog, I have decided I might as well write it on League of Legends. This is the grave...
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Level Design in Souls Games
RPGs and virtual economies – the curious case of Dabloontok
epic video about TikTok and how they created an RPG using the algorithm of the app. also money
Continue reading...New Game, now with Extra Glitches
Maybe you have heard of the new Pokémon game release, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. The game seems like any other in the franchise, but it has...
Continue reading...Podcast WASD–Make it harder!
This week we talk about the game’s high difficulty and self-imposed challenges. The Pokemon community is (in)famous for the Nuzlocke challenge, which sets the rules that...
Continue reading...Horror games: why we enjoy being scared
In my previous posts, I’ve discussed RPGs like Genshin and World of Warcraft as well as the MOBA League of Legends. Why people play them, varying...
Continue reading...The video games you bought are not yours!
Your Steam library may contain a lot of games; but are they really yours? They probably just came from a rental! As a licensing control technology,...
Continue reading...China’s game censorship and fragile national pride
I’m sure those of you who play video games regularly and are also interested in various humanities disciplines have noticed that video games can’t teach you...
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LGBT identities in League of Legends
It’s been a big year for the League of Legends community, the most recent big event being DRX winning the World’s Championship against the undefeated T1....
Continue reading...Death Stranding: Why We Connect?
Death Stranding is an open-world walking simulator with action elements, released in November 2019 by the Kojima Productions of the legendary game producer Hideo Kojima. The...
Continue reading...Walking Simulators: Interactive Storytelling in Video Games
Before video games were a widespread form of entertainment, stories usually only came from movies and books. Even when they did start to pick up steam...
Continue reading...4000 US Dollars
Bayonetta 3, a sequel in the popular Bayonetta videogame series, is set to launch on October 28th. This is great news for any fans of the...
Continue reading...I almost became a toxic gamer
Just this past weekend, Rainbow 6 Siege (R6S) welcomed me back after four years of being afked with 12 straight losses; but what really disappointed me...
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