Games & apps

A Taste Of The Past

In A Taste Of The Past, players will step into the shoes of Mei, a shy, Chinese-American high school student that is dealing with the sudden passing of her mother. After Mei loses her mother’s recipes, she embarks on a...

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News | Stories

Conquering Imposter Syndrome and Embracing My Identity as a Black Game Developer

Part of my childhood in the 90s involved going to the computer store with my Dad and picking out PC games on floppy disks. Back then, when YouTube didn’t exist, when there were no trailers or gameplay videos to watch,...

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Staff Picks: November Games

This month we wanted to embrace talking about the individual connection that players have to the games that they play, and why. So, we’re sharing our staff picks of the games we’ve been diving into this November, and the reasons...

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Games & apps

ACTing Minds

Players join Steve as he embarks on a journey into his own mind. Steve lived a happy life mostly, and unfortunately, after a string of bad events players will have to Venture through the inner workings of his psyche while...

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PTSD Awareness – how to support yourself and others, information and signs

After over two years of a still ongoing global pandemic, the events in Ukraine are a lot to take in, to process and to understand. Feeling overwhelmed is a perfectly normal response to what we are seeing unfold in Eastern...

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What Video Games Can Teach Us About Setting Goals by Abbi Ruggles

January; the time for looking to the year ahead, for a fresh start, for setting goals, writing to-do lists, and hoping that overnight you’ll magically turn into the person you wish you were. If only it was that easy. Unfortunately,...

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Stories

Journey, Anxiety And The Unavoidable Importance Of The “Walking Simulator” – by Lara Jackson

One of my favourite games of all time is thatgamecompany’s Journey. Originally released for PlayStation 3 back in 2012, Journey is a relatively short game in which you play as a cloaked figure traversing the desert. Your goal is to...

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Games & apps

Journey

Journey is the embodiment of the phrase ‘it’s about the journey, not the destination’. This game is a highly meditative experience which follows the life cycle of a lone wanderer, who’s making a pilgrimage to a tall mountain peak. As...

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