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Image Credit: CD Projekt Anyone familiar with video games won’t need me to explain what expansion packs and DLC are. For anyone who isn’t, expansion packs and DLC are basically the same thing, with the latter being the more usual name these days. They provide more content for a game, be it superficial content like […]
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Image description: A person dressed in a space suit standing in front of cliffs. As you start the game, the screen goes black and a low discordant tone plays. Before you, a line of brightly coloured, cartoonish space suits appear. “Crewmate,” it reads, “There is one imposter among us.” The gameplay of Among Us is […]
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Destiny, a gaming franchise that many declared dead for over half a decade, has a thriving community and player base. Both games in the Destiny franchise, D1 and D2, have had very rocky launches. D1 was marred by behind the scenes drama that ultimately resulted in a disjointed narrative and severely underdeveloped campaign, which many […]
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Image description: A person meditating while sitting on a cliff near some mountains. The representation of video games throughout mainstream Western media, particularly conservative outlets, has long been negative. Simply Googling ‘Fox News’ and ‘video games’ reveals numerous articles connecting video games to “mental health hazards”1 for children, with columns establishing tenuous links between violent […]
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Image description: A sand dune in the desert with a blue sky behind it. Acting phenomenon Timothée Chalamet, who rocketed to prominence back in 2018 by starring alongside Armie Hammer in Director Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name, and has since starred in Netflix’s retelling of Henry V’s ascension to power in The King […]
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Image description: A red PlayStation 4 controller against a red background. Microsoft and Sony fanatics should lay down their arms, for the console wars are over. Or, at least, they are set to be completely different this upcoming generation. Despite what the fact that GTA V getting its fourth release on its third generation of […]
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Image description: A number of open books. A few years ago, I had my first go at a game that is ingrained in my mind as a masterpiece of storytelling: Fallout New Vegas. Despite the buggy, outdated engine and frustrating experiences (I had to wipe 2 saves because of them not loading), Fallout NV absorbed […]
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Image description: Two men dressed as knights wearing armour and carrying swords. Two writers, Robert James and Joshua Walker, review their favourite game: Crusader Kings 2, for Tutorial Level. Robert Macilraith Crusader Kings 2 popped onto my radar about four years ago, while looking up bad Game of Thrones theories on YouTube. I was soon transfixed […]
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Image Description: A Nintendo Switch console with wrist straps and a Joy-Con grip. It is difficult to define the period between March and now, encompassing a Trinity term that for many of us was spent away from Oxford, and leading into a long summer vacation. But it is undeniable that between March and now, there […]
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Even if you aren’t a fan of the JRPG (Japanese Role-Playing Game) genre of video games, it is highly likely that you have heard of the now increasingly popular PS4 game, Persona 5. One of the most wonderful 200-hour time sinks I could ever indulge in, the game focuses on our central protagonist (Joker) and […]
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If we were to jump back to the early noughties and explain what the world would be like in 2020, it might seem as if we were pitching a concept for a new Resident Evil. A virus outbreak, political tensions and a world that seems on the brink of despair – it’s the stuff of […]
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Editor’s note: We are starting a new series – ‘Tutorial Level’ – on people’s favourite games! Even if it’s not the sort of game you’re used to playing, we hope you can appreciate the passion that goes into these articles. Roshan appeals to our nostalgia for offline multiplayer content while castigating the inadequacies of contemporary […]
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Editor’s note: We are starting a new series – ‘Tutorial Level’ – on people’s favourite games! Even if it’s not the sort of game you’re used to playing, we hope that you can appreciate the passion that goes into these articles. Amy writes about a game that many know only as ‘2D Minecraft’, but in […]
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Legends of Runeterra (LoR) is a free-to-play digital card game set to officially release on Windows, Android and IOS on 30th April. It is Riot Games’ Hearthstone if you will, and a new injection into the card game genre that is perhaps overdue since Gwent and Shadowverse failed to topple Hearthstone’s dominant position, while Blizzard’s […]
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It’s been ages since you’ve seen the outside world. Days turn into weeks, weeks into months. You reminisce on the good old days when you used to get out of bed before it got dark. Sometimes, you forget what human touch feels like. OK, I might just be projecting here. But if there’s one thing […]
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Gaming and E-sports is a brand-new section for the Oxford Student. It felt only right to start off by introducing E-sports to the Oxford audience who probably shuns the idea of gaming for a living. Everyone in the modern age plays some form of video games, whether it being Candy Crush on your mom’s iPad […]
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Students from a number of colleges have come together to construct different Oxford environments in Minecraft, establishing a virtual community that is expanding by the day. The project was officially launched following The Oxford Student’s publication of Worcester College’s re-creation in Minecraft, spearheaded by second-year students Luke Rickard and Jordan Grinyer. Their efforts were mirrored […]
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Two students at Worcester College have put together a Minecraft server that re-constructs the college site in the finest of detail, observing the sweeping lawns of the main quad alongside the atmospheric low ceilings of the college bar. The virtual college, built entirely in Minecraft blocks, has seen multiple online users, attracting a large number […]
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Image: CC Dids from Pexels. Description: a Nintendo DS. Glare at me, tut at me, judge me if you like. It won’t make any difference. Times were hard, and game developers needed to be taught a lesson. In the year of 2007, I strolled into my nearest GAME store and bought an Action Replay for […]
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