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Sadly So we don't format into PDFs (there's just one or two people who do all the production, unpaid, so we try to keep that work load as minimal as possible). But you could probably just print to PDF for the individual articles you want to read?
July 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Go deep w/ an new original translation 🗾 @hiroiwasaki.bsky.social's doujinshi Legend 7: Why Do 2D Games Usually Go to the Right? ➡️ translated by @onemillionpower.com and @devilrei.bsky.social. Learn abt Hudson Soft, Menko cards, Mega Man and more thru Iwasaki's POV 👀

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Cover of なぜ２Dゲームは右へ進むものが多いのか?, known in English as Legend 7: Why Do 2D Games Usually Go to the Right?, by Hiromasa Iwasaki (Image courtesy of cover artist, Hiroshi Aizawa). Cover features drawings of Luigi, Mario, and Toad running to the right, which right-facing arrow behind them.
July 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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In Materials section is our 2024 fundraising commission winner @riquesampaio.com.br w/ a wild piece on the historical context of 🚫 Casseta & Planeta: Noite Animal in Post-Dictatorship Brazil 😬 Its a game with sex, racism, homophobia and more so why was it sold to kids?!

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PC Multimídia magazine, containing two CD-ROMs: one with the game Casseta & Planeta: Noite Animal (ATR Multimídia, 1995), prominently featured on the magazine cover, and another with the game Betrayal at Krondor (Dynamix, 1993) along with demo versions of other games, including children’s games (Courtesy of Leandro Matioli) Screenshot of where players start in Casseta & Planeta, in the teen-aged protagonist's bedroom. It has orange walls and is full of electronics, a computer, a surfboard, and a poster of a topless model.
July 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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🗣️ Pierre-Yves Hurel and Sophie Bemelmans interviewed Swiss game developer Daniel Roux, creator of the Blupi/Eggbert games 🥚 We're dropping this in:

FRENCH (original)
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Menu principal du jeu Blupi is Back (2024), disponible sur Android et Windows. https://www.maniabricks.com/games/blupi-is-back/ Main menu of Blupi Is Back (2024), a video game available for Android and Windows. https://www.maniabricks.com/games/blupi-is-back)
July 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Our peer-reviewed article this issue is 📸 SCREENSHOTS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN by @jacobgaboury.bsky.social 📺about the long history of screenshot photography within game culture 🏆
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a photograph of a long-haired child, standing next to their TV, which displays the end screen of a video game
July 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM