On the evening of July 13, 1793, a woman named Charlotte Corday entered the house of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. A leading figure in the Reign of Terror, a period of time in which Marat and his political allies called for the beheading of roughly everyone who spoke French, Marat had become a shut-in, forced […]
Fake Empire: Watch Dogs and Surveillance Culture
Reviewed on PS4 Warning: Minor Spoilers May Follow The CIA has a Twitter now. This made me squirm as soon as I heard it. I mean, we all know the government can follow us on Twitter whenever it wants to. But now it wants to actually follow us on Twitter? It feels like power projection, a […]
The CBGBs of Indie Gaming: With Sportsfriends, Juegos Rancheros is Shaping the Future of Gaming
Remember Flynn’s Arcade? You know, from the opening scene of Tron. Jeff Bridge’s character was an ex-software dev turned arcade owner and host of the titular cabinet. Blah blah blah. I don’t need to give you a summary of Tron here, you’ve seen it or know it, but if you’re like me then something in […]