Last week was the calm before the Fallout 4 storm, a good week to find some unexpected stories, which the team did marvelously. Here are my favorites:
The Life and Creativity of A Great Bethesda Artist – An inspirational remembrance
Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s Most Brutal Scene Haunts Me – A critic’s nightmare
Fallout 4 Review Embargo Gets Embargo – A riddle wrapped in an enigma
How A Video Game Glitch Became A Full-Blown Conspiracy Theory – An end to a wild goose chase
Overwatch Makes A Great First Impression – Initial dispatch from a new frontier
The Curse of Kiseki: How One Of Japan’s Biggest RPGs Barely Made It To America – What? A sixth piece? Yeah, six! A story with tons of drama.
Best unplanned theme: Video game’s taking chances with how they depict relationships. Exhibit A, Exhibits B and C
Best story about Hellblade (or: best way to find a strong angle involving a game people aren’t really buzzing about): A PS4 Game’s Quest To Create A Realistic Woman
Best comics piece from Evan: Marvel Just Made a Weird Change to Squirrel Girl
Best headline: New Video Game Announcement Could Be Just About Anything (runner-up that might as well have run up the building when it was supposed to be running down the sidewalk: Dear Assassin’s Creed: Fix Your Damn Controls)
Best GIF (via this post):
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