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Games for Women’s History Month
It’s Women’s History Month and we’ve just celebrated International Women’s Day.
This is an important time to celebrate women across the world, and an opportunity to listen to, propel, and protect marginalised voices, and pledge to do better.
We thought it a good time to look back at some of the games we’ve worked on which highlight powerful stories with women – both as the protagonist and as the leading creative talent.
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Walking is my favourite thing in Death Stranding
They say that the best stories in games are often the ones that the player tells themselves as part of the emergent experience of gameplay – the wild, unpredictable expanse of storytelling that is found in the mechanics.
I’ve been playing a lot of Death Stranding on PC recently, and that absolutely holds true here. The moment-to-moment gameplay of Kojima Productions’ debut title is unlike anything I’ve played in recent memory.
And it’s all because of how into the walking I am…
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INMOST – a masterful debut!
Lately, I’ve found myself really gravitating towards shorter games. Don’t get me wrong, I’m already eyeing up my next Dragon Age series replay, and I have a great fondness for all the games that want to take up dozens of hours of my time. But something I realised that’s been building up is that I’ve not been finishing any games…
I’ve since turned to playing and replaying a lot of games which offer 2-6 hour experiences. Sometimes, I really crave those more intimate, concise, memorable experiences with a defined beginning, middle, and end.
And that’s an itch INMOST absolutely manages to scratch!
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Death Stranding, according to Steam reviews
Death Stranding is a genre-defying experience that boasts beautiful visuals, a stunning musical score, and all the hallmarks of what connotations arise from the name Hideo Kojima.
Following its original November 2019 release on PlayStation 4, Death Stranding has finally released on PC!
Naturally, we turned to Steam to see what people are thinking of Kojima Productions’s first game.
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How ‘live events’ are changing storytelling and social spaces in video games for the better
Last month, thousands gathered in the Tower to watch the sun-killing Almighty vessel get blown up by Rasputin in Destiny 2.
Last week, several Christopher Nolan films (Inception, The Dark Knight, and The Prestige) were streamed live as part of a movie night… in Fortnite.
The meta-verse of gaming is evolving, with it comes new opportunities for storytelling and social spaces. And so we are moved to ask: are ‘live events’ in games the future?
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