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Tag: Video Games

Random Encounter #10: In Which Video Games and Movies Are Very Different Media

April 7, 2021 Hanna Mertens Featured, Random Encounter

Is it possible to make a good video game movie? Like, at all? For many years, the term “video game […]

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Random Encounter #9: In Which the Ownership Paradigm Shifts

March 3, 2021 Hanna Mertens Featured, Random Encounter

Sooner or later, we aren’t really going to own anything – and video games, while late to that particular party, […]

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Random Encounter #8: In Which a Turbulent Mess of a Year Somehow Produced Okay Video Games

February 3, 2021 Hanna Mertens Featured, Random Encounter

2020. That just kept going, didn’t it? Anyway, in honor of this column making it a year, here are the […]

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Random Encounter #7: In Which the Next Generation Is Somehow Still a Thing That Is Happening

November 4, 2020 Hanna Mertens Featured, Random Encounter

We’re on the eve of the launch of brand-new video game consoles – always a momentous, exciting time, and arguably […]

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Random Encounter #6: In Which the Rules of the World Shape the Rules of the Game

October 7, 2020 Hanna Mertens Featured, Random Encounter

Star Wars Squadrons got me thinking about the ramifications of starship design and fairness. See, one of my favorite bits […]

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Random Encounter #5: In Which Game Design is Made More Super

September 2, 2020 Hanna Mertens Featured, Random Encounter

This Friday (presuming no cataclysmic network outage and hoping CAHSS and Effect didn’t decide to finally revoke this column) sees […]

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Random Encounter #4: In Which the State of Things Affects the State of Play

April 15, 2020 Ryan Martin Featured, Random Encounter

I have to write these things in advance. Normally, that means thinking about a particular game or topic that will […]

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RANDOM ENCOUNTER #3: In Which the UW System’s Connection to Doom is Revealed

March 24, 2020 Ryan Martin Featured, Random Encounter

Earlier this month, id Software released Doom: Eternal, the latest entry in the wildly popular Doom franchise. While the latest […]

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RANDOM ENCOUNTER #2: In Which You Are Introduced to a Dragon

February 19, 2020 Ryan Martin Featured, Random Encounter

In the grand arc of video game history, we are at the point where obscurity is now a relative concept […]

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RANDOM ENCOUNTER #1: In Which the Obligatory List of Games That Offered a Modicum of Joy In 2019 is Provided

January 31, 2020 Ryan Martin Random Encounter

Many video games were released in 2019. A lot of them were bad. Some were baffling. A few, though, stood […]

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