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Image Description: the words “Application extended!. Join our senior editorial team. Applications open until 11:59PM on Wednesday, 8 December.” against an image of the Bridge of Sighs. Applications to join the Senior Editorial team and Creative team of the Oxford Student have been extended until midnight on Wednesday, the 8th of December! If you would […]
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Image description: Various gaming controls scattered on a surface DANIIL DANKOVSKY’S FUN STEPPE VACATION WAS JUST THE TUTORIAL FOR ARTEMY BURAKH’S TORMENTOUS NIGHTMARE What is Pathologic? Have I played it? Will I play it? Do I want to play it? Will I watch and rewatch a 130-minute YouTube video about it and decide it’s my […]
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Image Description: the words “Apply now to join our Senior Editorial and Creative Team! Apply through the online form. Open until 5th December at 11:59 pm” against a background image of the Radcliffe Camera. Applications to join the Senior Editorial team and Creative team of the Oxford Student are now open! If you would like […]
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Image description: Ryan Reynolds at San Diego Comic Con I really enjoyed Free Guy (2021). However, despite the great performances from the main cast and the enjoyable script, the film fails to give more than surface level attention to many of the issues it raises. Free Guy differs from a lot of other video game movies in that […]
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Image description: CS:GO virtual poster at Paris Games Week 2012 In the first week of November, the best CSGO teams in the world returned to the arena to fight it out for their share of a $2million prize pool. The first event to have a crowd in attendance in two years, the Avicii Arena in […]
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Image description: a League of Legends character statue carrying a sword, surrounded by ice Since the first world championships in 2011, the question of which server is the most competitive has been hotly debated amongst fans and professionals alike. Generally, there is a division between the largest eastern leagues (China’s LPL and South Korea’s LCK) […]
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Image description: ‘The International 2015’ arena from an aerial view with ‘Dota 2’ on display Over the course of the week beginning 11th October, 18 teams battled it out for the most lucrative prize in esports history at the 10th edition of Dota 2’s world championship: The International 2021. After a thrilling best of 5 Grand Final, […]
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Image description: a poster depicting a collage of every character in ‘The Simpsons’ O ‘The Simpsons: Hit and Run’, how thee shine in my memory like the early 2000s diamond encrusted gem that thou art. How I remember, coming home after school to be greeted by the familiar collage of “Soaring like a candy wrapper […]
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Image description: a pink original artwork depicting the various characters of Nitrome games A fond early memory of gaming for me is playing browser games on the computer. Whether it was being allowed computer time as a kid whilst my parents wanted to relax, or sneaking a short game into an ICT lesson in year […]
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Image description: the protagonist of ‘Bloodborne’ falls to their knees in witness of a Lovecraftian nightmare The question of video games as art is one that, as someone who somewhat stopped playing games regularly once I left my teen years, I often struggle to reconcile with my other pretentious English Lit student leanings, and my […]
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Image description: A promo photo for Assassin’s Creed II, picturing Ezio striking a Venusian guard from above. Picture this: it’s March 2021, I sit down in front of my TV, overly excited to have finally been able to acquire a PS5 (after being scammed out of money on my first try, don’t worry, I got it […]
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Image description: A convention of people all playing Hearthstone on PCs Video games have the potential to produce the most varied and revolutionary experiences of all media. Through programming, one can create complex games that require a player to think in new and interesting ways that other media such as films and books cannot facilitate. […]
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Image description: black pawn chess piece surrounded by fallen white chess pieces Lockdown has seemed to me to be an era of the brief in entertainment and gaming trends: we had little to do but consume online media, and so new fads entered and left the online psyche at breakneck speed, the sudden and inexplicable […]
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TW: discussions about addiction and mental health conditions. Links at the bottom of the article for more information on the help available. Image description: A person wearing headphones faces a computer screen. Often upon a school night, and even, I confess, since coming to university, I have had the accusation levelled at me by my […]
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Image description: A black and white photo of the bottom half of a Nintendo DS, a dog is lying down on the screen When I was younger, I was an expert owner of virtual pets, from Tamagotchis to Moshi Monsters. But the best game of them all was always Nintendogs. Looking back on it, Nintendogs […]
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Image description: A cartoon illustration of a person in a swimming pool with a thought bubble of a ladder CW: death The Sims has taken on something of a special role in people’s lives during the pandemic. As much of the world is shut down, we can but reminisce about a time when we had […]
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Image description: a green and blue skateboard lying face down diagonally on the side of a pavement There is no shortage of amazing games in the market right now. From captivating narratives like The Last of Us, to immersive RPGs like Fallout, to indie feats like Hades, and even to love-them-or-hate-thems like Cyberpunk 2077. It […]
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Image Description: The Mario brothers in karts Mario Kart Wii is almost everyone’s (not so) guilty pleasure. Yes, it has caused many an intense argument between siblings over who gets to play as who and many a toddler tantrum over being hit by that dreaded spiked blue shell. You cannot argue that it was not […]
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Image Description: An Xbox Series S and Controller Launched in 2017, Xbox Game Pass is certainly not the first video game subscription service, but has the potential to be the most important for the future of the industry. For a monthly fee, Game Pass allows you access to its wide array of games, available to […]
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