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Critical Reflection is a quiet space for slow thinking about fast media—exploring video games as art, memory, and myth. An artzine for the artistic and cultural aspects of video games. Link in bio: lnk.bio/critical.reflection
Critical Reflection - An artzine on video games as art
For years I've had an idea for an artzine incubating in my mind, and now that the stars are alligned, that idea is coming to fruition. The Critical Reflection artzine is for those who believe games can be poetry and that they carry meaning.
08.08.2025 11:41 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Between AAA polish and indie grit lies the middle space — where b-games live. Too weird, too sincere, too flawed to fit the mold. Beautiful disasters that stumble toward brilliance. Not perfect, but vital. Not safe, but art.
#BGames #GamesAsArt #MiddleSpace #gamestudies
Between AAA polish and indie grit lies the middle space — where b-games live. Too weird, too sincere, too flawed to fit the mold. Beautiful disasters that stumble toward brilliance. Not perfect, but vital. Not safe, but art.
#BGames #GamesAsArt #MiddleSpace #gamestudies
It’s disgusting. A small group of open bigots in Australia being favored over an entire medium and at least tens of thousands of people.
This is real censorship. Not the version perceived by the free speech warriors who are silent/celebratory on this. May their phone lines be swamped forever.
The dangers of censorship are real, and we can never trust these institutions to have anything but financial gain as their no. 1 priority.
We have seen the same kind of censorship from Steam itself; just look at the situation with Devotion (Red Candle Games, 2019).
Defend art, defend games!
“There’s a highway beneath Kentucky where debt becomes geography. A forest in Pennsylvania where communities hunt their own children to keep their dreams alive.”
New on Critical Reflection: how video games map the mythological America better than reality ever could.
#GameStudies
Again we see that it’s the artists and creators that get the boot, instead of the people making ever-increasing amounts of money of the backs of others.
07.05.2024 20:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Virkelig? Trenger vi å ta opp problemspilling hver gang?
Ibelin er en rørende, personlig og vakker historie om en ung mann og hans alt for korte liv, om hans forhold til dataspill.
Skal vi også nevne fyll og vold i Holmenkollen hver gang noen sier noe positivt om skisport?
Far Cry 5 gives the series a well-deserved rest from tropes about savage barbarians and the western savior, but it is still a problematic game that refuses to reflect on the political message it sends.
#gamestudies
In my opinion, his kind of statement is not the selling point they think it is. It is a statement that belongs to the intersection between capitalist jingo and gamer bro culture.
And it shows how this way of thinking has been integrated in our understanding of games
#gamestudies
