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My Favorite Games of the Year (2023)
Due to some significant life changes in 2023, I didn’t complete as many games as I did in years prior. However, I still got a taste of many great games and even managed to finish a few! As always, this end of the year wrap-up is for me to catalog some of my favorite games…
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A Year of Incompletes…
and that can be okay! 2023 has been an uncertain year for me and the family. At the start of the year, we were living in another state but looking to return to Michigan for personal and professional reasons. Anxiety was a constant companion for the first four or so months of the year as…
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Gaming at Grandma’s House
Some of my earliest gaming memories involve visits to my grandparents’ house. My grandmother was a gamer. It felt a little strange writing that sentence, but it’s true. My grandmother played games on a bulky old Dell that sat on a crowded little desk. In that same room at my grandparent’s house sat a piano…
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Inventing Narratives as Gaming Practice
Video games provide space for the imagination When I was a teenager, I played a ton of Rollercoaster Tycoon. I was a theme park manager in charge of a slew of parks. It was my responsibility to keep the books in the green lest the stakeholders got antsy. This required planning for the future, considering…
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Music Boxes, Haunted Mirrors, and Voodoo Dolls, Oh My! (It’s Phasmo-Season, Baby)
Phasmophobia continues to be a hit among my friends, with its spooky atmosphere and unforgiving ghosts.
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No Man’s Sky: Six Years Later
No Man’s Sky continues to deliver new content and exciting discoveries. In this post, I reflect on my most recent experiences with the game.