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Use the discount code TRICKORTREAT and you’ll get a 50% discount at the checkout. The code is one use per customer, but it applies to everything in your basket. This offers expires on 1st November – don’t miss out!
#7 Power: Explore personal identity in BioShock Infinite, get lost in a maze of dungeons, break a cycle of ignorance with black characters in gaming, examine the anarchy of Deus Ex, and party at the Wild Rumpus.
#8 Space: Read about a fourteen year quest to complete Commandos, the symbolic death of Aerith in Final Fantasy VII, the failed men of failed gaming satires, the virtue of discomfort in games, and the capacity of games for empathy.
#9 Time: Portal 2 and the musical triggers of memory, bullet hell shooters and the art of excess, the sublime of the space exploration game Out There, emphasising dying over killing in military shooters, animals in games and emotions.
#10 Heart: Read how Solid Snake’s radar meets its match in Vulcan Raven, the power of videogames to teach us about words, a tribute to the games that help us Get Well, how Freedom Fighters shows Americans what it’s like to feel occupied, and how some developers are tackling piracy by releasing their games in a Pirate Bay Bundle.
Escape to Na Pali – A Journey to the Unreal: What does it mean to be alien? What makes videogame journeys worth it? Join Kaitlin Tremblay and Alan Williamson as they explore the classic videogame Unreal: discover the sublime in videogames, the fictional architecture of game spaces, what happens when science-fiction meets high fantasy and much more.
Year One – Reloaded: The first five issues of Five out of Ten, lovingly remastered with a new design. Enjoy fifty outstanding essays that refine videogame writing: investigative journalism, personal experiences, childlike wonder and adult encounters.
