Features
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Six of the illest characters in video games
I’m pleased to report that I have a cold. In her essay “On Being Ill,” Virginia Woolf points out that it is “strange indeed…
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I made Death Stranding in Red Dead Redemption 2
‘Come with me, and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination,’ said Gene Wilder, in that film about a series of unfortunate events…
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Some of Josh’s Games of the Year 2018
Well, it’s not been a banner year for games, as 2017 was, but the likes of this list would stand tall alongside any vintage. I…
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Red Dead Redemption 2 dances to Ocarina of Time’s 20-year-old tune
On this day, 20 years ago, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released in Japan. Its arrival is the closest players have…
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All I wanted was a bath in Red Dead Redemption 2
My schedule for the weekend looked – or would have looked, were I the sort that kept schedules at weekends – like Tetris. A…
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Red Dead Redemption 2’s opening feels like Stockholm Syndrome
And so, like a diamond, arrives Red Dead Redemption 2. Not just for its rarity (arriving eight years after the original, and five since…
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Game Box Art Critique: Red Dead 2, Forza Horizon 4, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Each Month, we invite élite art critic Braithwaite Merriweather to appraise the box art of the latest game releases. In between his time spent…
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Here’s why Red Dead Redemption 2 probably won’t be a ten
Rockstar goes about development with the stately confidence of the Vatican, each new game annunciated the same way a new pope is. The release…
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Red Dead Redemption should always give us cowboys
The cowboy is an enduring pop cultural phenomenon. There he is, taming a new, wild, frontier, whether or not there are indigenous peoples already…