Examining the fight to exist as a woman in the GCC, through Haunting Ground and Silent Hill 3. — Haunting Ground is a 2005 survival horror game produced by Capcom that is also dubbed ‘Dementio’ in other versions. Fiona Belli is the 18 year old protagonist of the game. She survives a car crash where she loses both her parents, and find herself stripped in a small cage. She…

How an anonymous man deals with regulating video game access within an entire country. — During the early 2000’s in the GCC, the evolution from bootleg Atari and Sakhr consoles to the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 era meant access to several kinds of rendered and realized video games. …

I tried to play a lot of games in 2020, these are the titles I think fondly of that have helped me through the year. Astro’s Playroom Astro’s Playroom was my first PlayStation 5 game. It was the first game I platinumed on the PS5. This title was so much…

I played through the entirety of The Last of Us Part II in around 35 hours. 35 hours of grief, suffering, glorified torture, idleness, and dormancy. — The Last of us Part II strives for a personal, grueling play-through of grief and revenge, but falls short because of the gameplay-justifying walking controls. …

tw: vague mentions of eating disorders, weight fetishism and body policing. — Amidst the Rockstar Studios work crunch ethic worries highlighting the importance of unionizing game developers and studios, and The New York Time’s apparent interest in claiming the outdated ‘did u kno video games are art’ opinion article that made any game that wasn’t a triple A one redundant. All the…

Why I still play Final Fantasy 15 despite being really bad at it. — After playing Final Fantasy 15 two year after its initial release, and still going back to it every now and then to scrounge up any hunts I’ve missed or side missions I’ve felt brave enough to try despite my low level, one thing remains constant to how I feel about…

Yakuza 0’s substories hold more emotional resonance than any triple A game I’ve played recently. — spoiler warning; it be like that sometimes. no major main story spoilers, just the cabaret club substory. I picked up Yakuza 0 after it’s price dropped to $20 on the PSN store. I didn’t know anything about the series, and really only got it after seeing fanart of the game’s…

Trigger warning; mentions of child abuse. Also includes minor spoilers of The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. — The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit opens up with a track named “Death With Dignity” by Sufjan Stevens. You’re Chris, a ten year old boy with a creative imagination scope. As you design your superhero costume and set your personality by playing with toys, you then don your cape and…

How are Arabic Localizations of video games being taken by players in the Gulf? — In 2009, Activision released Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, a first person shooter on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game included a map that depicted Pakistan, yet featured Arabic text, even though the Official languages spoken in Pakistan are Urdu and English. In comparison, Sony Computer Entertainment…