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Digital Culture and its Discontents

A place where video games get picked apart to examine the gooey Ideology inside


BOOitsnathalie
@BOOitsnathalie

Happy Halloween! To close out October, @TaylorMcCue chronicles her days in Urban Dead, dying, reviving, and dying again as the endless zombie cycle holds the city in limbo.

When I was younger, I used to be extremely into Urban Dead, a text based MMO set during a localized zombie epidemic. Years later, the covid pandemic brought me back to the game’s undead infested streets. Fear makes you crave familiarity, and I wanted to return to a place from my childhood where the pandemic and quarantine were all just normal.

Read here: https://kritiqal.com/articles/urban-dead


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