Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Wounded Warrior Project Brings Veterans Together for Night of Gaming
Playing video games often carries connotations of Italian plumbers saving princesses from castles or armored space Marines shooting aliens, but for a group of wounded veterans, it represented an opportunity to heal and rediscover bonds similar to those formed in the military. Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) and Stack-Up, a charity organization that brings veterans and…
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On Historical Context in Video Games (w/Paul Wang)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we sit down to discuss the historical context of gaming narratives and how games learn lessons from historical evolution, not all of them good. We ruminate on how characters and franchises evolve relative to the popular storylines in fiction…
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On the First Twenty Episodes
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we’re without a guest, as the focus is on decomposing the first twenty episodes and discussing current events and updates. We also address what goes into making the podcast what it is, dumb things that have happened to your…
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Review: Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak: Special Gigs (PlayStation Vita)
Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak: Special Gigs Developer: Toybox Inc. Publisher: Aksys Games Genre: Visual novel/SRPG Release Date: 09/20/2016 When Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters originally came out last year, it was something that sort of pinged my radar, but I didn’t get around to picking it up at the time. That turned out fortuitous since…
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On the Sudden Success of Persona 4 (w/Nick Tricome)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we sit down to discuss the sudden and, at the time, surprising success of Persona 4 relative to its predecessors in the Shin Megami Tensei series, and how this came to pass. We discuss the ways Persona 4 brought…
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Review: Dishonored 2 (Sony PlayStation 4)
A worthy sequel that gives you even more options.
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On the History of Rhythm Games (w/Joe Tran)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we sit down to discuss the other side of music oriented gaming by discussing the history of the rhythm game genre. We discuss the origins of the genre, its many rises and falls over the years, the current state…
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Review: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Sony PlayStation 4)
Despite the new location, this feels like more of the same. That’s either great or terrible, depending on your viewpoint.
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On Video Game Musicals Part Two (w/Alex Lucard)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we sit down once again to discuss musicals, and more specifically, the idea of musicals existing within the medium of video games. In the second part of this discussion, we aim towards gaming musicals and why they’re in the…
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Review: Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration (Sony PlayStation 4)
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a satisfactory sequel, but not all it could have been.
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Review: World of Final Fantasy Collector’s Edition (Sony PlayStation 4)
Read the-the review the-now the the THE!
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On Video Game Musicals Part One (w/Lola Mendoza)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we sit down to discuss musicals, and more specifically, the idea of musicals existing within the medium of video games. In the first part of this discussion, we discuss some of the core language surrounding describing the mechanics of…
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Review: Picross 3D: Round 2 (Nintendo 3DS)
Picross 3D: Round 2 Publisher: Nintendo Developer: HAL Laboratory Genre: Puzzle Release Date: 09/01/2016 The Picross series has been around since the days of the original Game Boy, but has kept its appearances sparse. Picross 3D was one of the best puzzle games on the DS, and it still took its sequel more than six…
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On Morality in Video Games (w/Jack Quiches)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we sit down to discuss the concept of morality in video games, and how games tend to handle this concept from a narrative and mechanical perspective. We discuss the methods games use to deal with morality, how games are…
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Unboxing of World of Final Fantasy Collector’s Edition
Since its announcement, World of Final Fantasy has pretty much lived in the shadows. It debuted to a rather muffled response from the public and was forgotten about until its release date was finally unveiled. Previously, it would’ve landed the month after Final Fantasy XV, which likely would have overshadowed any potential fanfare it may…
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On the Nintendo Switch (w/Aaron Sirois)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to discuss the announcement of the newly named Nintendo Switch (formerly the NX), as well as its initial announcement trailer. We also discuss the known facts, rumors and speculations, as well as the…
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Review: WWE 2K17 (Sony PlayStation 4)
WWE 2K17 Publisher: 2K Sports Developer: Yuke’s Genre: Simulation/Fighting Release Date: 10/11/2016 With each passing year, the expectations for this newest generation of WWE games grow. While some concessions were allowed for the jump up to the current generation, it’s now time to see just how good these games can be on the newer hardware.…
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Neo Kobe Pizza – On Information Security in Gaming (w/Joshua Moore)
Welcome back for another episode of Neo Kobe Pizza, Diehard GameFAN’s weekly topical podcast! This week, we discuss the concept of Information Security and how it relates to video gaming and its players. We also discuss how gamers are unlikely to utilize security tools when playing, security events over the past few years, and how…
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Review: Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky (Sony PlayStation 4)
Exist Profile.
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Review: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (Sony PlayStation Vita)
Heed my call… … Play this game!
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