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Moving Pixels Podcast: This War of Ours

If The Sims were created, not by Will Wright, but by a committed nihilist, This War of Mine might be the result.

                                      
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        Dollhouses of Desperation: Playing to Practice, Playing to Prepare
    
G. Christopher Williams

        07 Jan 2015

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