culture

Dan Golding Games such as Far Cry draw on colonial histories but seldom move beyond the imperial gaze.

Jini Maxwell The Artful Escape’s exuberant style and psychedelic soundtrack can’t mask its essential superficiality.

Jini Maxwell

The release of dark visual novel We Know the Devil on Nintendo Switch may herald a more inclusive industry, but it’s far from marketable ‘diverse content’.

Jini Maxwell Phantom Abyss, the new asynchronous multiplayer game from Brisbane-based studio Team WIBY, promises to take the social stress out of online gaming.

Jini Maxwell A moving parable that looks at the effects of colonial trauma, Mutazione invites the player to co-create its soundtrack.

Jini Maxwell

Naphtali Faulkner’s first-person photography game Umurangi Generation is a fun dystopian romp that develops into an insightful exploration of the insidiousness of fascism.