Article: The “Purity” of Art
Inetgrity, Proportion, Clarity [not “fantasy” nor “realism”]: the Conditions of Beauty
Gaming Under
the Influence
[Nov 29/2022, 9pm]
E.143
The Evil West Episode
Evil West is a refreshing game to play in 2022. While, as its marketing has noted, it lacks secondary monetization features of any kind, it also recalls games developed in the PS2 era, before the advent of contemporary information technology: when developers lacked the ability to monitor community opinion or concurrent steam players and instead had no choice but to focus on the integrity and self-contained merits of their games.
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