jenn frank

…Animal Crossing

Jenn Frank over at Paste Magazine uses her review to try and pinpoint what the appeal of the highly engaging game is.

Meanwhile, Juli Clover reports a recently discovered glitch that lets you double money and items at will and how it has turned Animal Crossing into “a grotesque slave exchange.”

The Last of Us

Some guy over at PopMatters is disappointed in The Last of Us that for all its supposed greatness he found that it didn’t focus on any fundamental ideas as much as its drama and ultimately felt it a work…

…many questions with it […]

I’m willing to bet that if you geared your documentary trailers toward information rather than exploitation, they’d prove just as popular force others to see you in a new light. You have the potential here to get lots of young people interested in global politics — why not take it?

Apart from hosting Call of Duty ads, Vice also serves as the latest platform for Jenn Frank, who returns with a tale of the heyday of college campus piracy and shareware procrastination that seems almost transcendent and mystical. And she’s talking about…

…much by the inclusion of different audiences that the traditional design focus of games as havens for straight, white, cis male power fantasies will disappear. (Oh, the humanity.)

On Infinite Lives, Jenn Frank uses the lack of a pause button in Destiny as a jumping-off point to discuss her feelings of guilt, frustration and resentment of being made into a “Game Widow,” and talks about how design choices in games can put real strain on personal relationships depending on how they influence the player to manage their time and attention,

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