Apr 4 2019
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The art book Kickstarter for Swordsfall, a tabletop roleplaying game set in an Afro-futurist African nation, raised…
Feb 13 2017
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Every morning, I run a pick through my hair. It’s important that I do this when it’s still spongy and damp from the…
Apr 21 2016
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“I’m here to tell you there’s something else...” Prince showed me the life I wanted to live. He was my black genius…
Feb 22 2016
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By the time that Power Man and Iron Fist #125 came out in the late summer/early fall of 1986, I’d already learned…
Jun 22 2015
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Feb 19 2015
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Video games have a blackness problem. This has been a known thing for a while, and we do talk about it from time to…
Aug 20 2014
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I've had to be three people this week. They exist separately, in spaces that I'm better off keeping discrete for the…
Jul 2 2014
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Assassin's Creed games revel in meticulous recreations of historical eras. So let's see actual historians discuss the times two newer AC entries were set in. In this video, YouTube series History Respawned takes a look at Liberation and Freedom Cry as reflections of black life in the 18th Century slavery system.
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Mar 31 2014
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Slavery in the Transatlantic of the 1700s was a complex, interconnected network of financial systems, social…
Mar 13 2014
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Thralled—the chilling indie game about a runaway slave who's also a mother—has found a home on Ouya. Lead developer Miguel Oliveira tells Kotaku that Thralled will be an exclusive in exchange for the console company's support and that he expects a release later this year.
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Feb 28 2014
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I thought I was going to have to drop Mighty Avengers because Greg Land's art is so off-puttingly plastic. (That…
Feb 5 2014
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Starting this month, PS3 and PS4 owners won't need to own the full version of Assassin's Creed IV to play its…
Dec 23 2013
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Boarding a slave ship and liberating its human cargo is probably the most satisfying thing you can do in the new…
Dec 19 2013
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The newest chapter of the Assassin's Creed series gives me some of the things I've always wanted in a video game: a…
Dec 17 2013
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People like to rag on downloadable content. It's a boondoggle, detractors say. A crass way to get extra cash for a…
Dec 16 2013
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All those islands in the Caribbean that are plush vacation spots now? They used to be colonies, outposts for…
Oct 12 2013
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The capes. The gadgets. The weird interpersonal relationships. The goats. Superheroes are straight-up absurd when…
Oct 8 2013
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A while back, Ubisoft said that Assassin’s Creed IV would have an add-on campaign focused on Adewale, the former…
Sep 13 2013
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Mighty Avengers just became my favorite mainstream comic, because it’s giving me something that I’ve been wishing…
Aug 22 2013
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I told myself I wouldn’t let this unfinished game make me cry. But it did, because it made me put a crying baby on…