Category: games
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1337 – Gamer Theory (2007)
GAM3R 7H30RY / McKenzie Wark / Version 1.1
- can we explore games as allegories for the world we live in?
- can there be a critical theory of games?
1336 – Little Misfortune (2019 video game)
timespace coordinates: 1993 Sweden
Little Misfortune is an interactive story, focused on exploration and characters, both sweet and dark, where your choices have consequences. Sharing the same universe with the cult video game Fran Bow, created by the visionary dev-duo Killmonday Games.
1332 – Boet Fighter (2019 video game)
timespace coordinates: 2010’s Fourways – northern Sandton, north of Johannesburg, South Africa.
“Only people who are proper d@*ses, with slow cars and unattractive girlfriends do not like it.”
1330 – Ruiner (2017 video game)
timespace coordinates: cyber metropolis Rengkok / nightscapes and industrial jungles of a grit-tech 2091

Ruiner is a brutal cyberpunk top-down shooter / isometric slasher video game developed by Polish indie game studio Reikon Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released for Linux, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One on 26 September 2017. Omri Pettite of PC Gamer stated that “Ruiner is gorgeous, a sensory feast inspired by the works of cyberpunk’s 1980s heyday, in which a silent, masked protagonist travels through the nightscapes and industrial jungles of a grit-tech 2091. Underneath, a thumping top-down action game delivers sword-sharp combat, the familiarity of its design offset by the constant urge to simply stand still and drink everything in.”
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (MINIMUM): Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system / OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 x64 / Processor: Intel Core i5-760 (4 * 2800) or equivalent / AMD Athlon II X4 645 AM3 (4 * 3100) or equivalent / Memory: 4 GB RAM / Graphics: GeForce GTX 460 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 6850 (1024 MB) / Storage: 10 GB available space


1278 – Forza Horizon 4 (2018 video game)
timespace coordinates: environment based in a fictional representation of the United Kingdom, in a region that includes condensed representations of Edinburgh, the Lake District (including Derwentwater), and the Cotswolds (including Broadway), among others, and features over 450 licensed cars.
Forza Horizon 4 is an open world racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios. It was released on 2 October 2018 on Xbox One and Microsoft Windows after being announced at Xbox’s E3 2018 conference. It is the fourth Forza Horizon title and eleventh instalment in the Forza series. The game is noted for its introduction of changing seasons to the series. (wiki)
