The Search For The Apolitical Video Game

The NOexistenceN of you AND me

Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

News - This Week in Videogames

Covering the important things happening in the world of videogames. News, reviews, and insights without ads or filler content.

Introducing The Pentaract: A Comprehensive Set of Video Game Lexicons for ATProto

Some of you already know that I’ve been working on-and-off on a lexicon for video games. I figured it would be a good idea to put the lexicon up for further discussion, and to make sure I’m headed down the right path with things. But why? Last year, the video games industry experienced a significant upheaval when radical groups leveraged moral panic to pressure payment processors, which in turn pressured games platforms to remove NSFW applications. This resulted in a lot of underrepresented dev...

The hidden ‘rules of the game’ that dictate how we navigate the world | Psyche Videos

How free are we really, if human behaviour embodies the complex, intertwined webs of society and history?

Rogue

Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans

Gaming by @sweetbee.vip

All-inclusive, "For-You" style video games feed. All gamers welcome. Anything related to gaming welcome. Anyone can use #gaming to include relevant posts.

Video Game Monetization | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

A lexicon for game activity sharing

I think that discussion landed on atmosphere.games, no? I think it’d be cool to get this lexicon out there soon.

Critical Distance

"Where is all the good writing about games?"

We Are Civic Media

A discipline-crossing introduction to civic media via accounts from grassroots practitioners “Civic media” is the use of contemporary technologies to connect communities, inspire action, build civic capacity, and sustain social change efforts. Written by artists, creators, storytellers, organizers, and others working at the intersections of technology, social justice, and culture, this book summons civic media through the lived experiences of its contributors. Latoya Peterson delves into the therapeutic power of gaming; Akilah Hughes discusses identity and community through the lens of her campaign to change her high school's racist mascot; and Tyree Boyd-Pates emphasizes the potential power of museum curation to challenge power dynamics and bridge digital and physical realms. Through the experiences of these grassroots practitioners and many others, We Are Civic Media offers accessible insights for those interested in understanding, respecting, and practicing civic media.

The Video Game Library | All Books on Videogames

The Video Game Library is a site that celebrates books about videogames. From artbooks and children's books to novelizations and biographies. Indie writers to best-selling authors. Atari to Xbox. Come have a look and discover some books.

Play old games: They're good and good for you

With prices skyrocketing and more and more bad news about contemporary video games every day, here's a suggestion: play old games!