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curated rss feed of alternative games writing and blogs

• Postgame.29 – Sexuality in Dragon Age

  3/23/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: Short but Not Especially Sweet

  3/19/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Nintendo: Gold Points Go Away, MAR10 Day, and Cheetozard

  3/12/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Race & Racism: Keep Supporting Palestinian Game Devs

  3/5/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• Seven Intriguing Video Game Sewers

  3/3/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Variety Hour: What Is a Performer, Really?

  2/27/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• The World Wasn’t Ready for the Nuance of Dragon Age II’s Bisexuality

  2/25/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Nintendo: Lawsuits, Tariffs, and New Nintendo Online Games

  2/19/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: The TikTok Ban Hits Games, Too

  2/12/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• Five Japanese Games Set in Fantasy America

  2/10/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Cosy: The Sims Turns 25 With a Bang

  2/5/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Froggy Facts (or Lack Thereof) in Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge

  2/3/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Variety Hour: Realis Is Here, and I Love Words

  1/29/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• January Roundtable: The Best Wintery Games, Part I

  1/27/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Nintendo: Switch 2 is a Boring Name

  1/22/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Double Dipping from the Guilds in Dungeon Inn

  1/20/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.28 – A Good Grade in Dragon Age

  1/16/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: A Weird Number of Words About Squid Game

  1/15/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Variety Hour: Happy New Year, I Guess It’s Sonic Week

  1/8/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Cosy: Happy New Wholesome Games

  1/1/2025 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Nintendo: Mostly Pokemon with a Sprinkling of Donkey Kong

  12/25/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Trees in Video Games

  12/16/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: Same as It Ever Was

  12/11/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• A Belated and Nostalgic PAX West 2024 Roundup

  12/9/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Cosy: Support Palestinian Game Devs

  12/4/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• November Roundtable: Revolution

  12/2/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Variety Hour: Strikes, Unions, and Layoffs, Oh My!

  11/27/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Nintendo: Music, Theme Parks, and Ports

  11/20/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• How to Beat Nightmare King Grimm and Ignore Your Grief in Ten Easy Steps

  11/4/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• October Roundtable: Intentional Horror Games

  10/29/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.27 – James Gournalism

  10/28/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Cosy: Cosy Games at Steam Next Fest 2024

  10/23/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Magical Delicacy: A Cozy Game That Left Me Hungry for More

  10/21/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Nintendo: Mario Party, Alarmo, Copyright Infringement, and More!

  10/16/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Labor: SAG-AFTRA Strikes League of Legends

  10/9/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: Bonkers Roblox Aspirations and the Inauspicious Return of Flappy Bird

  10/2/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Eight Short Free Horror Games on itch.io

  10/1/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Variety Hour: Some People Have Too Much Money

  9/25/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Cosy: Entire Annapurna Interactive Staff Team Resigns

  9/18/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Level Up Your Poetry, Part 5: When Words Take Iconic Shape

  9/16/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Nintendo: MySims, Indie Games, and Discontinuations

  9/11/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• September Roundtable: Festivals

  9/9/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• The Optimistic Fungal Horror of Ender Lilies

  9/5/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Labor: Tango Gameworks Bought, AI Troubles with SAG-AFTRA

  9/4/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: Someday I’ll Have a Month Where I Don’t Have to Complain About Apple

  8/28/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• The Best Comfort Games, Part I

  8/26/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Vampire Therapist is a Fang-tastic Debut from Little Bat Games

  8/22/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Variety Hour: This One’s a Weird One

  8/21/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• August Roundtable: How Long Should Games Be?

  8/19/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Race & Racism: Ubisoft Apologises for… Something

  8/14/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Interview: How to GM Romance with Friday Strout and Nala J. Wu

  8/8/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Nintendo: Upcoming Releases, an Anti-AI Stance, and More

  8/7/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Why A Link Between Worlds Is a Perfect Spooky Summer Zelda Game

  8/5/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Labor: Wall to Wall Unions and Video Game Performers on Strike

  7/31/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: Will Apple Ever Behave?

  7/24/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Game Enjambment: Ghosted by Pac-Man

  7/15/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Cosy: So Many Cosy Game Announcements

  7/10/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• July Roundtable: Underwater

  7/8/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.26 – Bitches and Haters

  7/4/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Nintendo: Nintendo Direct Is a Hit, Mostly

  7/3/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Grow Up: Life is Strange Misses the YA Game Mark

  7/1/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Labor: Video Game Executives Want to Sell You AI, by Any Means Necessary

  6/26/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: Fortnite’s Vehicle Combat Under Pay-to-Win Scrutiny

  6/19/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Game Enjambment: Super Emeralds

  6/17/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Variety Hour: IGN Doesn’t Know How to Share

  6/11/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• The Art and Communities of Achievement Hunting

  6/10/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Cosy: Decidedly Uncosy Layoffs Plus Upcoming Cosy Games

  6/5/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• June Roundtable: Collecting

  6/3/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: This One’s Mostly About Pop Stars

  5/29/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Neko Can Dream Delivers a Bittersweet Nostalgic Treat

  5/27/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Labor: Tango, Arkane, Roll7, Intercept Shuttered

  5/22/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• The GameBoy Advance SP: Rooted in Grief and Nostalgia

  5/13/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: Emulators Come to the App Store

  5/8/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• May Roundtable: Moms

  5/6/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.25: Best Game Ever

  5/2/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Cosy: It’s Hobbit Time

  5/1/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• That’s Just a Theory: On MatPat, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Saying Goodbye

  4/29/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Baldur’s Gate 3: The Real Brain Worms Were the Friends We Made Along the Way

  4/22/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Labor: Sega of America Gets a Contract, Possibility Space Shut Down

  4/17/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Building and Embracing Creativity with Genshin Impact’s Serenitea Pot

  4/15/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.24: 12 Seasons of Bones

  4/11/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Tabletop: Now With 110% More Franchise Adaptations

  4/10/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Cosy: Nintendo’s at It Again

  4/3/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Variety Hour: Hey, Wanna Listen to Some Music?

  3/27/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: Lady Gaga Corrects Her Spelling of Fortnite

  3/20/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• The Definitive Game Foods Menu, Part One

  3/18/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Labor: A New Largest Union, and Racist Gamers Are Mad Again

  3/13/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• March Roundtable: Oscar Season (but for Games)

  3/4/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.23: Where the Goats Are

  2/29/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Race & Racism: Colonialism in Games Is Alive and Well in 2024

  2/28/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• In Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, We’re Saving Everyone!

  2/26/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Variety Hour: Nothing on the Internet Is Real

  2/21/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO TTRPGs: AI Art and Chicken Sandwiches

  2/14/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Labor: Of Course Microsoft Laid Off Activision-Blizzard Developers

  2/8/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: Apple’s New Commission Rules Bring Back Epic, but They Still Suck

  1/31/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• January Roundtable: Newbie Hour

  1/30/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Cosy: New Cosy Games for 2024

  1/24/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Building Healthy Habits in Forage Friends with Pie Trap Studios’ Priscilla Firstenberg

  1/22/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.22: Colin Robinson Big Naturals

  1/18/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Variety Hour: The Future Is Now, Unfortunately

  1/17/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO D&D and TTRPGs: The Year Ahead for D&D

  1/10/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Labor: At Least 10,000 Games Industry Layoffs in 2023

  1/3/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• December Roundtable: 2023 Gaming Reflections

  1/1/2024 | sidequest.zone →

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• My Tomodachi Life Is Full of Ghosts

  12/28/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: My Love Island Stories Are in Shambles

  12/27/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Race: The Games Industry Is Still Racist

  12/20/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Pounce into Adventure with Cattails: Wildwood Story

  12/19/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Variety Hour: Why Are Brands Like This

  12/14/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.21: Bastion

  12/13/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• November Roundtable: Frog

  12/1/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Tabletop: Tabletop News, or the Many Questionable Decisions of Wizards of the Coast

  11/29/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Labor: Games Labor News Because There Are Too Many Layoffs

  11/22/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.20 – My Horse Prince

  11/16/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Mobile: Mobile Games News by a Person Who Has Never Played Fortnite

  11/15/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO Cosy: Cosy Gaming News for the Soul

  11/8/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• October Roundtable: Horror Game Settings We Might Survive

  10/31/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Sidequest’s Favorite Cozy Horror Games for Weenies

  10/30/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Ten Short Free Horror Games on Itch.io

  10/23/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• REVIEW: Venba Cooks Up An Emotional, Cosy Feast

  10/16/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.19: A Bewitching Revolution

  10/11/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• PAX West Diary 2023: So Many Games, So Few Played

  10/5/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• September Roundtable: Bi Pride Week!

  9/28/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Evergrace, A Forgotten FromSoft Classic

  9/25/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• REVIEW: Mask of the Rose Provides Character-First, Monster-Dating Fun

  9/17/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.18: I Don’t Want Wholesome, I Want Murder

  9/14/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• 30XX Is a Great Start to a Mega Man X Successor

  9/11/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• REVIEW: Outshine Is a Thrilling Introduction to the Typing Game Genre

  9/5/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• August Roundtable: Time Management

  8/31/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Layoffs, Strikes, and a Surprising New Venue for Hamilton

  8/30/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Level Up Your Poetry, Part 4: Games, Prose Poems, and Liminality

  8/24/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Soul Void Dives Deep into Retro Body Horror

  8/21/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Sorry for Getting the TMNT Theme Stuck in Your Head

  8/9/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Game Enjambment: The Labyrinth Proper

  8/7/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.17: Shit-Ass Wuss Man

  8/2/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• July Roundtable: Designing Our Queer Gaming Commune

  7/31/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Interview: Sarah Carapace and Emily Allen Talk Disaster Lesbians in Dungeon Bitches

  7/24/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Hollywood’s Biggest Strike in Decades, and More

  7/19/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: The Librarian’s Apprentice Celebrates the Magic of Libraries

  7/17/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.16: The Quiet Year, Part 2

  7/11/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: A Series of Downer Notes

  7/5/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• June Roundtable: The Definitive Ranking of Bad Dads of Games, Part I

  6/30/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Chip Chat: The Abject Desire of Salted Egg Chips

  6/26/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: That’s a Lot of Games

  6/21/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Fishing Vacation Dredges Up Unwholesome Summer Fun

  6/19/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Why I Hate Crisis Core: Part II, Jenova Boogaloo

  6/12/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: League of Legends Players on Strike

  6/7/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.15: The Quiet Year, Part 1

  6/6/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Nintendo, Zelda, and Me: Finding Refuge in Video Games

  6/5/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• May Roundtable: Labor in Games

  5/31/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: The Tartarus Key Is 32-Bit Horror as Good as You Remember It

  5/31/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Why I Hate Crisis Core: Part I

  5/30/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Riot Settles and Overwatch 2 Pivots

  5/24/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly Serves Up a Worthy Sequel

  5/22/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Mail Time Delivers Cute, Cosy, and Queer Gaming

  5/15/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Fuck Capitalism, Go Home

  5/10/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Pokémon Stadium Without Transfers Is Worthless

  5/8/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• How Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Navigated Fan Expectations

  5/2/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• April Roundtable: Earth Day

  4/28/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: New Releases and Nintendo’s Anti-Piracy Ruthlessness

  4/27/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Trademark Trolls, Pokemon DOn’t, and the Usual Microsoft/Activision Shenanigans

  4/12/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: E3 Canceled Yet Again

  4/5/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Mystic Messenger Trash: Behaving Badly in V’s Route

  4/4/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• March Roundtable: Luck Mechanics

  3/30/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: In Another Life, I Would Have Loved Doing Taxes With You, an Anime Girl

  3/29/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Dire Straits at the Disco

  3/22/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• The Four Best Romance Club Stories To Play First

  3/20/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Square Enix, Square Enix, Sony

  3/15/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Monster Hunter Rise’s Character Creator Gives Me Gender Euphoria

  3/13/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Let Me Tell You About My OC: Intari

  3/6/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: State of Play, Pokémon Day, More Bans at Bay

  3/1/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• February Roundtable: Wario and Waluigi

  2/28/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Get in the Car, Loser! Is an Unflinching Portrait of Anxiety

  2/27/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: A Space for the Unbound Journeys Through the Mind Toward the Apocalypse

  2/23/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before

  2/22/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: More Activision Blizzard, More Leaks

  2/15/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Chasing Static Is A Spooky Faux-Retro Walk Through the Woods

  2/13/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Unpacking: Our Lives in Boxes

  2/6/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: At This Point We Might As Well Call This Roundup “This Week in Layoffs”

  2/1/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• January Roundtable: Sequels

  1/31/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Layoffs and Leaks Abound

  1/25/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Coffee Talk Brews Up Coziness with a Splash of Discomfort

  1/23/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Black Flags Raised Against Hasbro

  1/18/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Autistic Representation in Video Games

  1/16/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast in the Hot Seat

  1/11/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Teacup Is a Charming but Buggy Brew

  1/10/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: More Blockchain Promises, More Merger Mess

  1/4/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Bratz: Flaunt Your Fashion is in Rock Angelz’s Shadow

  1/2/2023 | sidequest.zone →

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• December Roundtable: The Games of 2022

  12/29/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Everybody’s (Still) Getting Sued

  12/28/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• 5 Games to Play Between Seasons of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

  12/26/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• The Dreamcast and Hypersensitivity: A Neurodivergent Christmas

  12/22/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Strange Endings and Stranger Surprises

  12/21/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• A Final Fantasy-Themed Gift Guide for The Person in Your Life Who Won’t Shut Up About Final Fantasy

  12/20/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Dungeons and Decisions

  12/7/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• A Critical Evaluation of FFXIV Boyfriends for Cuffing Season

  12/5/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Climate Change, Buyouts, and Outdated Slang

  11/30/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• November Roundtable: Harvesting

  11/29/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Dark Souls and Trans Closets: Self Discovery Through Failure

  11/28/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Lawsuits, Lawsuits, and More Lawsuits

  11/23/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• How My Favorite Mobile Game is Choosing Inclusion

  11/21/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Mobile Games Are Taking Over

  11/16/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• How Gaming Magazines Shaped My Love of Gaming

  11/14/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Tumultuous Times in Tech (Thursday Edition!)

  11/10/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• More Than Just Fishing: A Roundtable About Sidequests

  11/7/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Harvestella Demo: What’s New in the Garden?

  11/3/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Blizzard Girlboss Gatekeeps Unions, Gaslights Workers

  11/2/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• October Roundtable: Ghosts

  10/31/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Roundtable: What Even Is a Wholesome Game?

  10/24/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Preview: Lords and Villeins Has You Oversee in Ways that Overwhelm

  10/20/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: The Games Industry, Surprising Nobody, Is Bad

  10/19/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow Hauntingly Blends Folk Horror with Point-and-Click Tradition

  10/13/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Activision Blizzard Continues Its Downward Spiral with Overwatch 2 Release

  10/12/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Game Enjambment: Where in the Zoo Is Carmen Sandiego?

  10/10/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• PAX West Con Diary: Game Recommendations from Another Weird Year

  10/6/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: The Land of Screens Isn’t So Subtle

  10/3/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• September Roundtable: Changing Seasons

  9/29/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Twitch, Please

  9/28/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Some Good, Some Bad, Some Ugly

  9/21/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: So Much Assassin’s Creed, and Yes, Square Enix is Upholding Its (Bad) New Year’s Resolution

  9/14/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Wizards of the Coast Apologises for Racist Hadozee Material

  9/7/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• August Roundtable: Back to School

  8/31/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Mergers, Not-Mergers, and Gamescom 2022

  8/31/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: 6th Edition (Or Not)

  8/24/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Keffels “No Longer a Suspect” After Being Swatted

  8/17/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Interview: Discovering “The Secret of the Mermaid,” a New Keepsake Game

  8/15/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: How Many Times Do We Have to Say That There’s Still a Pandemic

  8/10/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Two Perspectives on Remember August

  8/8/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Meta is Still Betting Big

  8/3/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• July Roundtable: Journaling Games

  8/1/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Freshly Frosted Is a Friendly, Funky Flare Game

  7/28/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: The Grift That Keeps on Giving

  7/27/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Democratic Socialism Simulator is a Soothing Balm for My Political Pessimism

  7/18/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Hideo Kojima Falsely Accused of Murder

  7/13/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Get Creative to Cheat Death in End of the Line

  7/12/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Layoffs, Web3 Strikes Again, and More

  7/6/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Enjoy the Pastoral Fantasy of Beecoming a Beekeeper in APICO

  7/4/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• June Roundtable: Beach Episode

  6/30/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: A Truly Awful Week for Everybody Except Bobby Kotick

  6/29/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Horizon Forbidden West: Vast World, Shallow Worldbuilding

  6/28/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Happy Anniversary Announcements from Dragon’s Dogma and Final Fantasy VII

  6/22/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Horizon Forbidden West, Authorship, and Identity

  6/21/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Exploring My Queerness in Pelican Town

  6/20/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Heard Y’all Like Games

  6/15/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Gave My Star Wars Obsession a New Hope

  6/14/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Resident Evil 4 Remake, Street Fighter 6, and More Announced at Sony’s State of Play

  6/8/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Level Up Your Poetry, Part 3: The Name of the Game Is Immersion

  6/6/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: What a Week, Huh

  6/1/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• May Roundtable: Growth and Gardening

  5/31/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Raven Software Wins Its Union Vote, DriveThruRPG Hacked

  5/25/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Fighting the Babes of Switchcraft

  5/23/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Union! Union! Union!

  5/18/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: PAX East Worker Dies from COVID-19 and Activision Is Sued Again

  5/11/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: “What Happened Here” and When You Finally Step Out That Door

  5/10/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Visual Novels and Other Visions: An Interview With Hanako Games

  5/9/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Let Me Tell You About My OC(s): Tabletop RPGs as Disempowerment Fantasies

  5/5/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Square Enix Selling Western Studios

  5/4/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• April Roundtable: Fools

  4/28/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Girlboss Gaslight Gatekeep

  4/27/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Chip Chat #3: Becoming the Elden Lord (of Snacks)

  4/26/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Preview: Face Your Dreams and Fears in I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

  4/25/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: I Hope You Like Activision Blizzard News

  4/20/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Ranking the Babes of Switchcraft

  4/18/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Good News at Activision Blizzard (Unless You’re Unionising)

  4/13/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Crypto Hacks and Mandating Vax

  4/6/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• The Visceral Voyeurism of Horror Playthroughs and Silent Hill

  4/5/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.14: Theseus’s Flat Ass

  4/4/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Preview: Glitchhikers Meditates on the Journey, Not the Destination

  4/4/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• March Roundtable: Time Travel

  3/31/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Raven Software Seeks Recognition & Kickstarter Shakeup

  3/30/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Misconduct at Indie Studios and Fundraising for Ukraine

  3/23/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Sony Accused (Again) of Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination

  3/16/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Haulways Trucking Inc Provides A Much-Needed Escape

  3/14/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Games for Relief & Activision Blizzard Sued (AGAIN)

  3/9/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• On Silent Protagonists: The Case of Persona 5’s Joker

  3/7/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: New Dragon Age, New Pokémon, New Activision Blizzard Suit (Again)

  3/2/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• February Roundtable: Companions

  2/28/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Video Game Movies, the Blockchain, and Other Reasons to Go Back to Bed

  2/23/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: IGDA Allegedly Mishandles Conduct Complaints

  2/16/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Postgame.13 – She’s Crunchy

  2/13/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Goodbye Stadia, Hello Stream

  2/9/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• These Chill Apple Arcade Puzzle Games Shut My Brain Up

  2/8/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Grow Up: Unlikable Characters in Jenny LeClue: Detectivú

  2/7/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: So Much About NFTs (and also the Halo Trailer)

  2/2/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Realism, Catharsis, and Why Pyre Works

  2/1/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• January Roundtable: Looking Forward to 2022

  1/31/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Microsoft Seeking FTC’s Permission to Buy Activision Blizzard

  1/26/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Diary of a Hardline Shep, Part 4: Imperialism but Make It Space

  1/25/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Chip Chat #2: Hot Chips, Hotter Game

  1/24/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Wytchwood Is Easy But Not Accessible

  1/20/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: COVID-19 At Super Magfest and More Lawsuits

  1/19/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• LoreQuest: Four Books You’ll Love If You Love Mass Effect

  1/18/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• 6 Video Games to Play During a Chronic Illness Flare

  1/17/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Tabletop Trouble

  1/12/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Stardew Valley Mods for 2022 (and Beyond)

  1/11/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Review: Firegirl: Hack ‘n Splash Rescue Propels With Earnest Despite Usual Roguelite Setbacks

  1/10/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Square Enix’s Blockchain Plans and Riot’s Lawsuit Settlement

  1/5/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Super Cat Tales: The Deceptively Cute Mobile Game for “Hardcore” Gamers

  1/4/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• Red Dead Redemption 2’s In-Game Journal is an Underrated Mechanic

  1/3/2022 | sidequest.zone →

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• December Roundtable: Gift Giving in Games

  12/30/2021 | sidequest.zone →

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• GYGO: Tesla, DisCon III, and Yes, More Activision Blizzard

  12/29/2021 | sidequest.zone →

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