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How Comics Make Sound On The Page
Typically, comics are considered a silent medium. But while they don’t come with an aural soundtrack, comics have a unique grammar for sound.
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Beautiful, Self-Rolling Catan Board Lights Up So It’s Easy to See Which Resources to Collect
The board game formerly known as Settlers of Catan isn’t hard to learn, but there are elements that are hard to master, like always remembering to claim resource cards after the dice is rolled. Sam March’s gorgeous custom Catan board solves that with tiles that automatically light up so it’s much easier for players to…
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New Pokemon Snap Makes a Case for Giving Up Battles
As much as the Pokémon franchise goes out of its way to explicitly tell you how much most of the creatures love their trainers — who capture and conscript them into lives of battling their own kind for glory — we all understand how messed up a premise that is when you spell it out.…
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A History Of Weird, Sexist Video Game Ads [NSFW]
Alright, folks. We’ve got a lot of potentially offensive images to go through, and not much space for preamble. So let’s just cut to the awful, awful chase. In a previous gig, I edited one of the last gaming magazines in the southern hemisphere. It’s a shrivelling medium that was once overflowing with full-page print…