Germany doesn’t run from its dark history—as a country, it’s actively worked to preserve evidence of the atrocities committed during World War II and has reconfigured its notion of Germanhood in its wake. Artworks that depict Nazis and Nazism are presented with an almost sacrosanct reverence, so that future…
Every December, instead of searching for a group consensus, Gameological looks back at the year in games through individual perspectives. These are the staffers’ personal takes on a few games that have stuck in their minds for whatever reason—big or small—and does not represent any sort of institutional expression.…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
Sam Nelson is back in the Digest co-pilot chair today—and in front of the A.V. Undercover wall’s woolly mammoth—to chat about South Park: The Stick Of Truth. (Joe Keiser previously reviewed Stick on this here website). It was hard to know what to expect from this game, because games based on films and TV shows are…
After several high-profile setbacks, it seems South Park: The Stick Of Truth has gotten one final delay—in Germany and Austria, at least. In accordance with German law, which prohibits the depiction of Nazi symbols, all of the game’s swastikas (and seeing as how you fight Nazi zombies, it has a lot of swastikas) were…
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Out This Month is a roundup of some new games that are coming out this month.
