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Can a Game Be So Bad It’s Good?
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Can a Game Be So Bad It’s Good?

By
Nick Dinicola
/ 28 February 2014
Since a game is interactive, it requires so much more effort on our part to progress through it that we can’t detach ourselves from the experience to enjoy it ironically.
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Featured: Top of Home Page/Games/Moving Pixels

What ‘AMY’ Says about Gender Roles in Survival-Horror Games

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Nick Dinicola
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