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Games Are Like Games, Movies Are Like Movies

2022-12-24
By: John Bowe
On: December 24, 2022
In: Retro gaming features

During a session of watching a friend play Skyrim some years ago, he remarked that the game was similar to reading a book. A silence then, which continued as I chose not to remark back at him and allowed that silence to fill in the details. I was not impressed.Read More →

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