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Addicted to Death: More Thoughts on Gaming and Masochism

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 9 March 2016
‘The Flame in the Flood’: Gaming As Naturalism, Gaming As Romanticism
Featured: Top of Home Page/Games/Moving Pixels

‘The Flame in the Flood’: Gaming As Naturalism, Gaming As Romanticism

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 2 March 2016
The Flame in the Flood provokes musings on the often troubling determinism of American naturalism.

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