Gaming can be a potent provider of escapism, but there’s a fine line between using video games to relax, and using games to run away from solving problems.
Posts Tagged With: XCOM
There’s something almost hypnotic about the way modern, advanced militaries teach individuals to coordinate their activity: moving in tandem, focusing on angles, timing shots and reloads with a beautiful synchronicity.
Do The XCOM
A game about videogames, about agency, and about the Mormons (a group of which I was once a member), and about how I see all of them.
A Thousand Deaths
10 The following excerpts are from the logs of Commander Milich Gray, who was placed in command of the international XCOM project immediately following the first abductions.
Nerd Corps Alien Defense Pt. 4: Trepidation
6 The following excerpts are from the logs of Commander Milich Gray, who was placed in command of the international XCOM project immediately following the first abductions.
Nerd Corps Alien Defense Pt. 3: Attrition
6 The following excerpts are from the logs of Commander Milich Gray, who was placed in command of the international XCOM project immediately following the first abductions.
Nerd Corps Alien Defense Pt. 2
2 The following excerpts are from the logs of Commander Milich Gray, who was placed in command of the international XCOM project immediately following the first abductions.