Tag: PS4
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Subnautica: Below Zero
Developer: Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Shiny Shoe LLCPublisher: Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Shiny Shoe LLCRelease Year: 2021Platform: Mac/PS4/PS5/Switch/WIN/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: Action Adventure, Survival Taxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters, Voice acting/ motion capture Taking place two years after the first game, scientist Robin Ayou travels to 4546B to learn the circumstances of the death of her sister,…
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Spider Man: Miles Morales
Developer: Insomniac Games, Nixxes SoftwarePublisher: Insomniac GamesRelease Year: 2020, 2022 (WIN)Platform: PS4/PS5/WINGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Black cultural traditions, Voice acting/ motion capture;, Narrative themes, politics/ ideology/ history; Black NPCs, Intersectionality Set in Harlem this game focuses on Miles Morales’ struggles to balance his life as a teenager and his duties as the second…
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Slime Rancher
Developer: Monomi ParkPublisher: Monomi ParkRelease Year: 2017, 2018 (PS4), 2021 (Switch)Platform: Linux/Mac/Switch/PS4/WIN/Xbox OneGenre: Adventure, SimulationTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Simulation Beatrix LeBeau, a young rancher, who set out for a life a thousand years away from Earth on the Far, Far Range. where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes. interviews and other…
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Shadow Man
Developer: Acclaim Studios TeesidePublisher: Nightdive StudioRelease Year: 1999, 2013 (PC), 2021 (Remastered WIN), 2022 (Remastered & Switch)Platform: Dreamcast/Mac/N64/PS/PS4/Switch /Win/Xbox OneGenre: Action Adventure Taxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black cultural traditions; voice acting/ motion capture The Shadow Man, originally Mike LeRoi, was transformed by a voodoo priestess into a guardian of the afterlife where he must stop…
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SEASON: A Letter to the Future
Developer: Scavengers StudioPublisher: Scavengers StudioRelease Year: 2023Platform: PS4/PS5/WinGenre: Adventure Taxonomy: Development, Playable Black characters, voice acting, Black NPCs, Intersectionality Estelle leaves her isolated home for the first time to create a record of the world for the next generation before a mysterious cataclysm wipes everything away. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Resident Evil 5
Developer: CapcomPublisher: CapcomRelease Year: 2009Platform: PS3/PS4/Switch/Win/Xbox 360/Xbox One Genre: Survival Horror Taxonomy: Black NPCs; Playable Black characters; narrative themes; voice acting/ motion capture; Anti-Blackness / regressive characterizations; Chris Redfield, one of the few survivors of the incident, is now working as an agent for the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA). He heads to the Kijuju…
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Psychonauts 2
Developer: DoublefinePublisher: Xbox Game StudiosRelease Year: 2021Platform: Linux/Mac/PS4/Win/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: Action, PlatformerTaxonomy: Development Razputin Aquato, trained acrobat and powerful young psychic, joins the international psychic espionage organization, the Psychonauts. Raz must use his powers to stop the mole before they execute their secret plan– to bring a murderous psychic villain back from the dead.…
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PaRappa the Rapper
Developer: NanaOn-ShaPublisher: SonyRelease Year: 1996, 1997, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2017Platform: PS4/PS/PSPGenre: RhythmTaxonomy: Black cultural traditions; mechanics PaRappa, a paper-thin rapping dog, vies for the heart of a flower-like girl, Sunny Funny, against Joe Chin, a rich, self-centered dog. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Overwatch 2
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment, Iron GalaxyPublisher: Blizzard EntertainmentRelease Year: 2022Platform: PS4/PS5/Switch/Win/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: FPSTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; fandom / community / reception The Overwatch heroes are called up once more to fight the second uprising of AI in a second Omnic Crisis. Squad based first person shooter. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Overwatch
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment, Iron GalaxyPublisher: Blizzard EntertainmentRelease Year: 2016/2019 (Switch)Platform: PS4/Switch/Win/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/S Genre: FPSTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; fandom / community / reception, Set sixty years into the future of a fictionalized Earth, humans developed Omnics, robots with AI. To combat the threat and restore order, the United Nations formed the Overwatch, an international…