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The Best Travel-Ready Games for Flights, Trains, and Long Layovers
Any number of things can happen (whether you want them to or not) while traveling. A four hour flight delay. Being rained in for the 3rd day in a row on the family trip. Gaming doesn’t have to be an at-home experience, and even if you don’t have a Switch or Steamdeck there’s plenty of…
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“Too Black, Too Strong”: How Black Culture Influenced Sonic the Hedgehog
My earliest memories of Sonic bring me back to playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on my family-friend’s Sega Genesis. Much like many gamers I was sucked into the Sonic universe from then on, but it wasn’t until adulthood that I realised how cultural the connection was. Like many a Black Brit who grew up familiar…
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Pokémon Legends: Z-A’s two new Black characters are a breath of fresh air
Between a Fairy-type socialite and the franchise’s first Black Nurse Joy, the new Pokémon game offers more representation for canonically Black characters. Last year, I wrote an op-ed about the rewarding yet isolating experience of being a Black gamer girl, citing hypersexualization and racial harassment as the downsides to embracing this part of my identity.…
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Lashana Lynch is Supermassive’s newest star in upcoming space horror Directive 8020
If you look carefully enough between the buzz and business of Gamescom, you could uncover a hidden void of deep space. Supermassive’s Directive 8020, the upcoming sci-fi horror installation and fifth game in The Dark Pictures Anthology, was neatly tucked away in a dimly lit room, the perfect atmosphere for the demo “Chapter 1: Humanity…
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How Clock Out at 2 Tackles Workplace Trauma for Women of Color
Gaming Through the Glass Ceiling: How Psychological Horror Clock Out at 2 Tackles Workplace Trauma for Women of Color In the fluorescent-lit corridors of corporate America, Celia navigates a daily minefield of microaggressions, unwanted touches, and casual racism. But this isn’t just another workplace drama, it’s the heart of Clock Out at 2, a groundbreaking…
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South of Midnight: nods to African American & West African Spirituality you may have missed
South of Midnight was released earlier this year and received nonstop positive reviews, praising the story, characters, and especially the scenery and musical scores. Developed by Compulsion Games and published by Xbox Studios, this Southern Gothic tale RPG has most of, if not everything, the gaming community has been needing for quite some time. This…
