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Cardboard Computer For years now, some of the best, wildest, most moving or revealing stories we've been telling ourselves have come not from books, movies or TV, but from video games. So we're running an occasional series, Reading The Game , in which we take a look at some of these games from a literary perspective. There are games where the story exists only to knit together gameplay elements and action set-pieces. There are games where story is an afterthought entirely. There are games where story is the point, which live on the screen as vehicles for telling tales and offering...

Kentucky Route Zero ( KR0 for short) in the context of the first Trump-Clinton debate. It’s relevant to that because it’s a tour through coal-country America, and it engages with the desolation there that’s fueling Trump’s support.   As a portrait of the region, it’s a Picasso or maybe a Goya, not a Velázquez. It has moments where it approaches documentary realism, but it mostly traverses an imaginary landscape reflecting its creators’ perceptions, inspired by their real-life travels in Kentucky.   KR0’s medium is a computer game, but “game” is misleading. There’s no el...

Soapbox: Kentucky Route Zero Was a Game Made Specifically For Me Editor's Note: This article contains some spoilers for Kentucky Route Zero's story. The music slowly falls away. The camera pulls out. Let me just wipe my face. Are those tears? The horses have been buried and the funeral is over. While this may not have been the closing moment of Kentucky Route Zero, it’s certainly the emotional peak. Those horses meant a lot to that poor town, and as I’ve discovered in the months since I completed the game, they meant a lot to me too. Even now, writing this, just listening to the song that...

The Ten Best Games of 2020 COGconnected’s Game of the Year Awards 2020 – Best Game What a year 2020 was. Unprecedented in a lot of ways, people turned toward video games as a way to escape reality and connect with others. And they had a lot of great options to pick from – 2020 has brought an outstanding variety of games to life. After a lot of discussion, we decided on the ten best of the year. Here they are. The greatest pack-in tech demo in the history of tech demos, Astro’s Playroom is an absolute joy to play. It handles precisely and has that magic that amazing games sometimes hav...

DualShockers' Favorite Games of 2020 -- Ryan's Top 10 In a year that pushed boundaries and was challenging, my favorite games of 2020 were both comforting, thought-provoking, and a blast to play. As 2020 (thankfully) comes to a close, the DualShockers staff is coming together to share their personal favorite games throughout the year. Unlike our official Game of the Year Awards, each of these lists is meant to reflect which games stood out personally to each of our staff members. Additionally, any game — not just 2020 releases — can be considered in each Top 10 List. It goes without sayin...