Media and Comms Lecturer at Unimelb 🏫 | Critical Game Studies Scholar 🎮 | Deputy Director of MAGPIE 🐦⬛| DiGRAA Board Member 🌏 | Checkpoint Critic & Writer ✍️ | She/Her
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Cassandra (Cass) Barkman
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Reviewed new NZ game Rose and Locket after being previously enamoured with it at PAX. Launch seems to have flown under the radar, which is a shame given how striking and assured the game itself is; big recommend.
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The article argues that presentations like Nintendo Directs and States of Play should be considered a key contemporary promotional paratext that offers insights into how their respective publishers attempt to shape their brand identity and corporate vision.
In it, I reflect on my experience playing Stardew Valley for the first while recovering from surgery and how it oscillated between pleasurable and stressful in a way that forced me to reflect on my own relationship to leisure and games as a game studies scholar.
