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Calum Marsh is a freelance essayist and critic born in Great Britain and based in Toronto. His writings have appeared in such periodicals as The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Esquire, and Playboy.

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1/22/15

The good with the bad: 9 great songs from not-so-great games

Is Silver Surfer for the NES a bad game? It’s impossible to tell. The game is just too maddeningly difficult to make…

1/9/15

Do you ever feel guilty about screwing around in an open-world game?

Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel…

12/22/14

Our favorite games of 2014, part one

Every December, instead of searching for a group consensus, Gameological looks back at the year in games through…

12/2/14

<i>Far Cry 4</i> is woefully unengaged from its boundless violence

Far Cry 4 is woefully unengaged from its boundless violence

Players can do a lot of things in Far Cry 4. You can scale a snow-dusted mountain by rope and carabiner. You can…

11/13/14

<i>Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare </i>trades realism for a Day-Glo fantasy of supermen

Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare trades realism for a Day-Glo fantasy of supermen

Now that its politics have been sanitized, its nationalism muzzled, and any hint of radicalism or provocation…

10/16/14

<i>Alien: Isolation</i> is a stunningly realistic locker simulator

Alien: Isolation is a stunningly realistic locker simulator

I like the way space looks in Alien: Isolation—the inky blackness of the void outside, the amber starlight spilling…

10/9/14

What last-gen game should we play before it’s too late?

This edition’s question was inspired by a suggestion from reader Rob W.:

10/1/14

Tracing the roots of <i>Eternal Darkness</i>’ infamous gimmick to a ’50s B-movie

Tracing the roots of Eternal Darkness’ infamous gimmick to a ’50s B-movie

In the summer of 2002, Nintendo released Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, its first M-rated title, and all across…

9/4/14

Hit pause to play: 9 great songs from video games’ idle moments

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8/19/14

<i>Hotline Miami</i> warps the simple stories of games past to make its point

Hotline Miami warps the simple stories of games past to make its point

In gaming’s infancy, stories were largely told by implication. The technology struggled to accommodate superfluous…