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Cozy games are huge today, ostensibly offering an escape from stress, but exactly what makes a game restful may not be as obvious as it seems.
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Robin Bea’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a grid'El Paso, Elsewhere' Director: "If You Don't Want to Deal with the Gatekeepers, Use a Different G...
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Five months after its release, 'El Paso, Elsewhere' director Xalavier Nelson reflects on the pressures of being an indie developer and the director of his own studio Strange Scaffold, the powerful scene that he had to cut out of his game, and more.
Human Connection Was At The Heart Of Robin Bea's Favourite Games This Year | Winter Spectacular 2...
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The games that had the biggest impact on Robin Bea in 2025 were about bringing people together.
'Consume Me' Masterfully Portrays Teenage Trauma But Leaves Its Most Important Chapter Out
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'Consume Me' tells a unique story of a teenage girl struggling with body image, academics and dating, all told through a hilarious minigame collection.
How the fight for bodily autonomy shaped 2022's most fascinating video game
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A roll of the dice. That's what determines how your day goes in Citizen Sleeper , as it does for so many people living in precarity in the real world. Its premise may be classic science fiction, but the struggle for self-determination and bodily autonomy at Citizen Sleeper 's core is all too familiar today.
Steam And Epic Could Destroy One Of The Best Indie Studios With An Unexplained Game Ban
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'Horses' is a subversive, unsettling indie game like nothing you've ever played - but censorship from Steam and Epic Games could destroy its developer.
How Apex Legends made its first trans woman more than “the transition story”
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"Trans people are not a new thing!" For trans people like voice actress Meli Grant and myself, this couldn't be any more obvious. So why does it seem like the games industry only just realized we've been playing video games this whole time, too?
'Metroid Prime 4' Review: A Gorgeous Shooter Trapped In A Lifeless Open World
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'Metroid Prime 4' builds a gorgeous new world to explore, but buries its best parts under an empty open world and grating companions.
25 Years Ago, Sega Dreamed Of Connecting The World With One Ambitious RPG
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'Phantasy Star Online' proved that online RPGs were not only possible on consoles, but that they could offer an entirely new way to approach games.
5 Years Ago, One Of The Most Brilliant Photography Games Perfectly Captured The Present Moment
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An essential game about photographing the end of the world felt like the perfect encapsulation of 2020, and it's only gotten more real in the five years since its release.
Steam's New Magical Archery Game Asks All The Right Questions
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Careful practice and tough questions form the backbone of a short, thought-provoking new game from experimental developers Deconstructeam and Selkie Harbour, called 'Many Nights A Whisper.'
No, Gaming's Worst Trend Would Not Have Saved The Most Overlooked RPG
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'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' might have been better off as a live-service game, according to the CEO of the company that removed its live-service elements.
'Moves Of The Diamond Hand' Is A Dice-Based Fever Dream I Can't Stop Playing
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A game about rolling dice to make pizza might be this year's best RPG.