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Autumn Wright

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Brooklyn
As seen in: Medium, The New York Times, Yahoo Entertainment, The Verge, WIRED Magazine, Digital Trends, TechRadar, Flipboard, Polygon, GamesRadar+ and
Covers:  Video games, anime and animation, manga, apocalypse fiction in all forms, and sometimes books and music too.
Doesn't Cover: AI, Blockchain/Crypto/NFTs, VR, F2P, Gacha, Gambling, tabletop, studies
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens launched the opening salvo of the fan-service culture war

Star Wars: The Force Awakens launched the opening salvo of the fan-service culture war

The A.V. Club — A decade before Disney turned to slop, it settled for reheated garbage when kicking off a new Star Wars film trilogy with The Force Awakens.
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In Ruins

In Ruins

Bullet Points Monthly — On Battlefield 6, destructible environments, and follies.
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How Chainsaw Man - The Movie draws on and transforms classic myth

How Chainsaw Man - The Movie draws on and transforms classic myth

The A.V. Club — The latest Chainsaw Man film provides plenty to chew on, but one under-discussed element is how it draws on classic myth.
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Scarlet Offers Complicated Answers To Simple Questions

Scarlet Offers Complicated Answers To Simple Questions

Endless Mode — While Scarlet is another visual stunner from Mamoru Hosoda, its attempts at answering big questions about modern conflict fall short.
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Knights of Guinevere's Pilot Is a Beautifully Animated Hate Letter to Disney

Knights of Guinevere's Pilot Is a Beautifully Animated Hate Letter to Disney

Endless Mode — In its pilot, Knights of Guinevere sets up an intriguing mystery based on the premise that we could all stand to hate Disney a bit more.
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Kirby's new Switch 2 expansion adds just the right amount of challenge

Kirby's new Switch 2 expansion adds just the right amount of challenge

The Verge — Kirby and the Forgotten Land Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World adds more challenging levels to the game.
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Your Character Sheet is Always On Hand: Print Weaver

Your Character Sheet is Always On Hand: Print Weaver

Unwinnable — Like your traveler, your character too was determined by fate - the very print marks of your fingers.
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Whisper Of The Heart left a lo-fi legacy unique to Studio Ghibli

Whisper Of The Heart left a lo-fi legacy unique to Studio Ghibli

The A.V. Club — Yoshifumi Kondō's mundane, romantic 1995 cult classic Whisper Of The Heart remains a prescient rejoinder to technological advances.
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A Dialogue with Joshua Rivera

A Dialogue with Joshua Rivera

Unwinnable — "I don't bill myself as a games critic. It's not good for my career prospects."
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A Dialogue with Jacob Geller

A Dialogue with Jacob Geller

Unwinnable — "My dream of dreams was maybe I could do this as a job, maybe I'll get paid millions of dollars to talk about video games, but more it was just I want these conversations that I'm having as one side of writing a blog."
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You cannot beat the final boss of No Rest for Wicked's latest saga

You cannot beat the final boss of No Rest for Wicked's latest saga

PC Gamer — The founder of Moon Studios has become the action RPG's worst enemy.
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A Dialogue with Nick Capozzoli

A Dialogue with Nick Capozzoli

Unwinnable — "[M]ake fun of the video game industry at your own peril because whatever stupid thing is happening to us in that moment, it's going to happen to you in about, say, a year and a half's time."
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The Magical Queer Teens Cinematic Universe with Autumn Wright!

The Magical Queer Teens Cinematic Universe with Autumn Wright!

Girl Mode Podcast — This week, critic and essayist Autumn Wright joins Robin to talk about Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, a game about growing up as a queer woman that’s just as messy as the real thing. We discuss how the game still works even when it’s fraying at the edges and wonder whether the mid-budget talky game can survive even if Don’t Nod doesn’t.
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Aftermath Hours

Aftermath Hours

Aftermath — Big Sales Don't Mean A Boycott Has Failed
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Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2 review

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2 review

PC Gamer — Tape 2 leaves more dead space than game.
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A Dialogue with Grace Benfell

A Dialogue with Grace Benfell

Unwinnable — "I think people are very afraid - and I am very afraid, I'm not immune to this at all - of people laughing at their lives."
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Lushfoil Photography Sim wants to make photographers out of us all

Lushfoil Photography Sim wants to make photographers out of us all

Digital Trends — Lushfoil Photography Sim captures the joys and anxieties of nature photography in one relaxing game.
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Games Media Can't Ignore BDS Xbox Boycott

Games Media Can't Ignore BDS Xbox Boycott

Aftermath — BDS' call to boycott Microsoft is a call to action for gamers, and an imperative for games media
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Season: A Letter to the Future is way more intense than your typical vacation bike ride

Season: A Letter to the Future is way more intense than your typical vacation bike ride

Polygon — A real-life bike ride in the Hudson Valley brings back memories of Estelle in Season: A Letter to the Future.
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A Dialogue with Nic Reuben

A Dialogue with Nic Reuben

Unwinnable Monthly — An interview with critic Nic Reuben on Final Fantasy VII and games reviews.
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They Called Me Slurs While You Dragged Their Bodies

They Called Me Slurs While You Dragged Their Bodies

Unwinnable — Who gets to punch Nazis in a video game?
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Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 1 review

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 1 review

PC Gamer — Lost Records is Stand By Me for the Rebel Girls.
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The Final Communion

The Final Communion

Unwinnable — There is a dam that will bury a religion. But now a girl is riding a bicycle over its crest, and she will write a poem about how the wind felt against her cheeks.
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Trails through Daybreak proves games can be normal about trans people

Trails through Daybreak proves games can be normal about trans people

Digital Trends — Falcom's long-running Legend of Heroes RPG series has a long history of queer representation.
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