A detailed analysis of Half-Life 2's impressive and historically important digital dystopia. Story by @thegamelogicist.bsky.social. #Politics #Fascism #Totalitarianism #HalfLife #Dystopia

The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the Trump administration’s policy changes has researchers shocked. https://go.nature.com/4iboVwb

Favorite Films I Watched This Week (Feb 16 - Feb 22) 16 - Nosferatu (1922) 🔄♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 18 - Hour of the Wolf (1968) 🔄♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐½ 19 - The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐ 21 - Chungking Express (1994) ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐½ ✍️🎬🇧🇷 letterboxd.com/vivitor/film...

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The video game media moves a passionate industry, for good and for bad. But tragedy always stands out in the news. Fortunately, this Super Jump new series offers a minimal periodic dose of optimism for us.

Favorite Films I Watched Last Week (Feb 9 - Feb 15) 9 - Shame (1968) ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐ 12 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 🔄♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐ 13 - A Star Is Born (1937) ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐½ 14 - Chicken Run (2000) 🔄♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ✍️🎬🇧🇷 letterboxd.com/vivitor/film...

Very happy that @thegamelogicist.bsky.social read my article on game history gentrification and wrote this: www.superjumpmagazine.com/the-early-ye... It chronicles the close relationship of Brazilians with Korean MMOs like Ragnarok & Grand Chase, to the point where the devs made an in-game BR city.

In this story I make a detailed study of the beginning of MMORPGs in Brazil, one of the most remarkable periods of my life. My main inspiration was an essay by @felipepepe.bsky.social, I recommend reading his texts if you are interested in the history of video games from a more global perspective.

Happy New Year to you all! Check out what's been occupying our time since the calendar turned over! ➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/now-playing-at-superjump-issue-29/

I'm finally starting Citizen Sleeper 2! 🛰️🤖🎲 (my most anticipated game of the year) New Game: Risky + Machinist

As the release of #CitizenSleeper2 draws ever closer, it feels like a good time to re-share this fantastic hands-on preview by @jickle.net, which also includes an interview with the game's creator, @jumpovertheage.com.

Favorite Films I Watched This Week (Jan 26 - Feb 1) 20 - A Grand Day Out ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐½ 28 - A Close Shave ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐½ 29 - Lost Highway ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐½ 30 - Autumn Sonata 🔄♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ✍️🎬🇧🇷 letterboxd.com/vivitor/film...

Citizen Sleeper is one of the few interesting and well-written video games comparable to great science fiction books. I'm curious to see more of the universe created by Gareth Damian Martin.

I've finished writing about the main films in the Star Wars Skywalker Saga, some are minireviews, others are standard reviews. Episodes: I - ⭐⭐⭐ II - ⭐⭐½ III - ⭐⭐⭐½ IV - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ V - ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ VI -⭐⭐⭐⭐ VII - ⭐⭐½ VIII - ⭐⭐⭐ IX - ⭐½ ✍️🎬🇧🇷 letterboxd.com/Vivitor/film...

Favorite Films I Watched This Week (Jan 19-25) 20 - Eraserhead ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐½ 21 - Mulholland Drive ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 24 - The Wrong Trousers ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 24 - Blue Velvet ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ✍️🎬🇧🇷 letterboxd.com/Vivitor/film...

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There are some science fiction animations that are very nostalgic for me, sometimes I wonder how much animations like these from the late 1980s to early 2000s influenced me in some way. I think I lived through a good time for animation in this genre.

Sometimes I'm impressed by the creativity of game developers in the face of technical limitations, as in the case of Rescue: The Embassy Mission, a 1988 tactical shooter with stealth elements and almost 8-bit FPS gameplay.

NEW ALBUM! Castlevania: Collection of Piano (in time for #Castlevania nocturne S2!) In the works for 6 yrs omg but some of my fave games/OSTs ever I had to take the time to do them justice Listen/buy: srsr.li/purpleschala... Art: www.instagram.com/cutoutcardman/ Gameplay: @lowlevelowl.bsky.social

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Films I watched this week: 🗓️ Sunday: The Piano Lesson ♥️⭐⭐⭐ 🗓️ Thursday: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🗓️ Friday: Anora ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐½ 🗓️ Saturday: The Elephant Man ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐½ ✍️🎬🇧🇷 letterboxd.com/Vivitor/film...

Sometimes art has an impressive ability to create wonderful characters that transcend a grotesque aesthetic. - "Boy Bitten by a Lizard" (1593–1594), Caravaggio - "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" (1883), Victor Hugo - "The Elephant Man" (1980), David Lynch - "Inside" (2016), Arnt Jensen

I'm curious to see what Monolith Soft can do on a more powerful console, and I'd especially like to see a new IP for the Nintendo Switch 2.

Get ready with your macro and micro skills, because Steam Real-Time Strategy Fest marches in next Monday. This Fest features all types of RTS games from medieval settings to space wars, in addition to some fresh takes on the intersection between real-time and strategy!

David Lynch was one of the most brilliant filmmakers of surrealism and absurdism in cinema. The history of cinema in the late 20th and early 21st centuries can never be told without mentioning David Lynch's legendary works, such as The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks.

It's not confirmed that the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con can be used as a mouse, but I think Pikmin is a Nintendo franchise that could benefit from this, and it would be interesting to see a new IP that explores this potential.

Although it started in 2019, finally in 2025 the ninth generation of consoles will have a complete team in the video game market.

My original article on Castlevania: SOTN's original English translation is up at @polygon.com! Based partly on an epic zoom interview I did with Jeremy Blaustein, who is still living & translating in Japan. www.polygon.com/gaming/50682...

Today is World Logic Day (January 14 is the date of the death of Kurt Gödel and the date of birth of Alfred Tarski, the two greatest logicians of the 20th century, and who are great inspirations in my academic studies). To celebrate this day, I'll give you some book, film and game recommendations:

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2022 has been the best year I've seen for adventure-RPGs yet, with brilliantly well-written releases in the genre, notably Pentiment, Roadwarden and Citizen Sleeper. 2023 and 2024 seem to have been weaker years for the genre, but 2025 gives me hope with Citizen Sleeper 2 coming soon.

If Switch 2 is a "Switch Pro", the ninth generation of consoles will be the least innovative in hardware interaction in the history of video games. I wonder if this is a coincidence or if we are experiencing a trend of greater appreciation for software innovation and less for hardware innovation.

Four classic Square Enix games that deserve a remaster or remake.

Billions of years from now, only one galaxy will remain as spiral galaxies NGC 2207 (right) and IC 2163 (left) slowly merge. This composite of Hubble and Webb images shows their recent encounter, triggering star formation and tidal streams. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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I know many are expecting a new Mario in the early days of the Switch 2, but personally I think the game that would most likely make me buy a Switch 2 on day one would be Dragon Quest XII (although I think it's unlikely to be released before 2026).

It's beautiful to see indie games like Untitled Goose Game next to classics from the video game industry! I would love to write a book about Braid or The Witness. These are games that definitely deserve to be next to these and I would have a lot to say. We're living a good time for indie games.

It's such a privilege to publish this masterpiece. We are showcasing, over and over again, the possibilities of video game writing/analysis. In a world where so much "content" is highly superficial, I'm grateful for stories that take the time to explore video games with this degree of nuance.

In philosophy of history, when we debate about causality in history, Julius Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon is one of the most iconic and cited examples, alongside the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that started the First World War.

I think that as we get older we value our time more, so I think it's common to prefer more concise experiences. However, some experiences are impossible to have in short games. The problem is often not about being too long, but about being poorly justified.

20 years have passed, but Half-Life 2 continues to reign among dystopian FPS games. Just like Half-Life in 1998, HL2 took the narrative design in FPS to another level. In my new essay, I explore how interesting and well thought out this game is to address totalitarianism and communication theory.

BTW, the amazing @thevideogamelibrary.org has a curation of books on video games from a more global perspective, it's worth a look: www.thevideogamelibrary.org/blog/hashtag... Curious about games in India & South Asia? There's a book called "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent", and much more! :)

A great essay about architecture in video games that should be read by all of us who live in the fictional worlds of video games. I plan to write about the architectural design of Portal 2 sometime, and this story will be one of my sources.

Games every bookworm should play: - Pentiment - Disco Elysium - Roadwarden - NORCO

I was co-writer of an entry on Wikipedia in Portuguese and I have nothing to complain about Wikipedia editors. Wikipedia is one of the best initiatives in the history of the Internet and one of the best online communities. pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filosof...

My favorite MMORPGs ever: Final Fantasy XIV Ragnarok Online Silkroad Online Dofus Online

Since the 1970s, Brazilian cinema has been well recognized in international festivals (mainly European), but it is rarely even nominated for American awards. Today is the first time a Brazilian actress wins the Golden Globe. This is a historic moment not only for Brazil, but for the USA.

👏Flow is my favorite animation of the year. Gints Zilbalodis did an incredible authorial work in a universal language, without dialogues, and with a subtle, charming and creative sensitivity with a post-human magical realism.

The information version of entropy is very important in cryptography! And the quantum version is becoming steadily more important too.... from @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...