The Geeky Blogger
It’s fascinating where the winding roads of history can lead you once you start heading down one of its paths. In this video, I journey from the video game Among Us becoming massively popular in 2020, and end up at Norwegian and British explorers racing toward the South Pole in 1911.
A few years ago, I shared my favorite song from each ‘Miracle of Sound’ Level album.
I’ve since made a Top 5 or 10 list for each album (depending on how big the album was).
In the last entry of my gaming backlog countdown I went from 30 games to 25, and checked off five games I played by myself. Two games on the PlayStation 4, and my last three games for the PS3.
Among Us is an online multiplayer deduction game from 2018 that became massively popular in 2020.
While the gameplay is inspired by party games like Mafia and Werewolf, the narrative backdrop is inspired by Ridley Scott’s Alien film from 1979 and John Carpenter’s The Thing from 1982.
This is a video essay adaptation of my Why You Should Play Games article.
There are numerous physical and mental health benefits to gaming, but these are seldom on my mind when I decide to sit down with a game. Instead, what motivates me is to experience other lands, other worlds, even other identities. All from the comfort of my own living-room.
An immersive sim is a video game genre that emphasizes player choice. While Farming Simulator simulates the work of a farmer, and Microsoft Flight Simulator simulates the process of flying a plane, an immersive sim is designed for you to completely immerse yourself in a world and its story.
In the last entry of my gaming backlog countdown I went from 35 games to 30, and checked off three games on my PlayStation 3, plus two games I played on my PlayStation 4.
In this episode of the Geekare Humanum podcast, Sindre and Renate discuss video games from Sindre’s childhood. Everything from PlayStation 2, to Game Boy Color, to Xbox 360, to Nintendo 64, to PC gaming.
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A few years ago, I shared my favorite song from each ‘Miracle of Sound’ Level album.
I later made a Top 5 or 10 list for each album (depending on how big the album was).
In this episode of the Geekare Humanum podcast, Sindre and Renate discuss video games from Renate’s childhood, before an in-depth dive into Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 masterpiece Apocalypse Now.
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In the last entry of my gaming backlog countdown I went from 40 games to 35, and checked off four games I played on my PC, plus one I played on my PlayStation 4.
It’s almost difficult to believe now that I was more into books than video games as a young child. Reading was something I did almost every day after being taught at an early age by my grandmother; and I have fond memories of visiting our local library and spending long sunny days with hardbacks in her garden.