Emotive Pixels: The Year of AAA Videogames

GeoGuessr vs. Microsoft Flight Simulator: Processing 2020's vicarious travel experiences

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We discuss the emotional impacts of two large presences in our year of Covid, and attempt to process why the experience of playing these two games felt somehow transcendent in a year of isolation, loneliness, and a void of travel.

  • GeoGuessr, a free to play online gamified Google Maps Street View game
  • astronaut.io, a website that randomly serves unseen YouTube videos and somehow strikes a similar chord to GeoGuessr
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    Emotive Pixels: The Year of AAA VideogamesBy Nate, Craig, Pauly and Will
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