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Tag: Critics

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Speak Up, The Order: 1886

This article is part of a series called Shut Up, Videogames, in which critic Ed Smith invites games old and new to pipe down, or otherwise. In this edition, he looks at the genre defying third-person action-adventure, The Order: 1886. It’s no masterpiece—it’s the story of immortal knights fighting werewolves and vampires in Steampunk London. But The Order: 1886 (2015) is still more than videogame critics deserve. Its low review scores and petulant detractors are proof, once again, that games could never become art (whatever that would mean) because the people playing them and the people responsible for curating them simply wouldn’t allow…

Review

The Beginner’s Guide to the art of videogames

Wreden on Wreden isn’t perfect, but it raises questions with a clarity few games have dared. 

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What TIME got wrong about The Last of Us

No photographer could capture what made Naughty Dog’s game great.

Article

Why is Kill Screen running review scores again?

Short answer: it’s time.

Article

Videogames need fewer Metacritics, more Roger Eberts.

Where all my critics at?

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