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Article, Featured, Vice Games Posted onFebruary 11, 2019December 31, 2019

Fortnite’s Appropriation Issue Isn’t About Copyright Law, It’s About Ethics

At a recent wedding, after the main course is taken away and the desserts come out, the least weighed-down guests slowly make our way to […] Read More

Article, Vice Games Posted onJune 6, 2018July 5, 2018

‘Detroit’ Siphons and Squanders a History of Marginalized Struggle

Detroit, famously known as the Motor City, was once the main producer of cars in the U.S. Its cavernous factories employed hundreds of thousands of […] Read More

Article, Vice Games Posted onMarch 19, 2018December 31, 2019

White Supremacy, Black Liberation, and the Power Dynamics of Gun Violence

“The easiest, simplest thing we do is give up,” says Charles Laveau, host of a pirate radio station in Mafia 3’s New Bordeaux, a fictionalized, 1968 […] Read More

Article, Vice Games Posted onDecember 25, 2017March 8, 2018

Dishonored’s Billie Lurk Was the Spirit of Justice in 2017

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, the stand-alone expansion to 2016’s Dishonored 2, follows the story of Billie Lurk, the assassin Daud’s erstwhile protégé, and Corvo Attano […] Read More

Article, Vice Games Posted onJuly 27, 2017March 8, 2018

In ‘Injustice 2,’ Even Our Heroes Are Authoritarian Assholes

NetherRealm’s Injustice 2 is ostensibly a game about a group of superheroes getting together to fight an arch-villain named Brainiac. Brainiac threatens to abduct several cities before […] Read More

Article, Vice Games Posted onJuly 26, 2017March 8, 2018

‘Prison Architect’ Has No Room for Political Action

This September saw the largest ever prison work strike in American history. On September 9th, the 45th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, 24,000 prisoners at […] Read More

Article, Vice Games Posted onApril 2, 2017March 8, 2018

Scoring Video Games at the Flea Market

Though it may seem silly, I find the ease with which I can buy video games to be a useful metric of my success as […] Read More

Article, Featured, Vice Games Posted onMarch 1, 2017March 8, 2018

Black Skin Is Still A Radical Concept in Video Games

Over the past few years, there has been notable improvement to the range of representation in games. Last year alone saw two separate big-budget titles […] Read More

Article, Vice Games Posted onNovember 16, 2016March 8, 2018

Playing In the Shadow of Progress in ‘Doom’ and ‘Inside’

Playdead’s Inside and Id Software’s Doom were lauded on release for smart game design, sharp aesthetic execution, and for some pretty clever mechanics. But both also have something to […] Read More

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