Tag: Switch
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Crime Fighters
Developer: KonamiPublisher: KonamiRelease Year: 1989, 2021 (PS4 & Switch)Platform: Arcade/PS4/SwitchGenre: FightingTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Black NPCs Side-scrolling fighter set in an urban landscape. More than a dozen women have been kidnapped by the crime syndicate, the player is then tasked with rescuing the women and bringing down the syndicate. interviews and other media scholarship Return…
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Treachery in Beatdown City
Developer: NuChallengerPublisher: NuChallengerRelease Year: 2020Platform: Switch/WinGenre: Action, FighterTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black characters, Black Cultural traditions, politics/ ideology/ history; Narrative themes; fandom/reception/community; Intersectionality; mechanics In Beatdown City, after President Blake Obama is kidnapped by ninja terrorists and the police force is shut down, now-suspended police chief Antonio Santiago enlists the aid of his daughter Lisa and…
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The Journey Down
Developer: SkyGoblinPublisher: SkyGoblinRelease Year: 2010, 2014, 2017Platform: iOS/Linux/Mac/PS4/Switch/ WIN/Xbox OneGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, voice acting/motion capture, politics/ideology/history, narrative themes, Black NPCs, intersectionality Bwana and his trusted sidekick Kito struggle to make ends meet at their gas station in a corner of Kingsport Bay on the outskirts of St Armando. They are…
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Swimsanity
Developer: Decoy Games LLCPublisher: Decoy Games LLCRelease Year: 2020Platform: PS4/Switch/WIN/Xbox OneGenre: ShooterTaxonomy: Development Playing as a hero named Mooba, you use a variety of unique power ups and weapons to fight and survive in an aquatic world. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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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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Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
Developer: Strange ScaffoldPublisher: Strange ScaffoldRelease Year: 2021, 2022 (Switch)Platform: Switch/Win/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: Strategy SimulationTaxonomy: Development Taking place in the far dystopian future, in an alien economy based entirely around the harvest and sale of bodily organs, you must contend with the cutthroat nature of an organ market. interviews and other media scholarship Return to…
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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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SkateBird
Developer: Glass Bottom GamesPublisher: Glass Bottom GamesRelease Year: 2021Platform: Linux/Luna/Mac/Switch/WIN/Xbox OneGenre: Sports Taxonomy: Development You play as a small pet bird, saddened by their unnamed human owner no longer skateboarding, you take up skateboarding in order to make yourself happy again. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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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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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…