Tag: Xbox One
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El Paso, Elsewhere
Developer: Strange ScaffoldPublisher: Strange ScaffoldRelease Year: 2023Platform: PS, Win, XboxGenre: FPS, HorrorTaxonomy: Black Cultural Tradition, Black NPCs, Development, Fandom/Community/Reception, Intersectionality, Mechanics, Narrative Themes, Playable Black Characters, Politics/Ideology/History, Voice Acting/Motion Capture Neo-noir shooter where you play as James Savage and fight vampires and werewolves to save prisoners from your ex, Draculae, the lord of the vampires.…
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Dead Island 2
Developer: Dambuster StudiosPublisher: Deep SilverRelease Year: 2023Platform: PS4, PS5, Win, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/SGenre: ActionTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, politics/ideology/history, intersectionality, Black NPCs, Anti-Blackness/ regressive characterizations Several months after the events of Dead Island, Los Angeles is put under full quarantine and you play as one of six survivors with distinct survival…
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The Walking Dead: Michonne
Developer: TellTale Games, Skybound EntertainmentPublisher: TellTale Games, Skybound Entertainment Release Year: 2016Platform: Android/iOS/Mac/PS3/PS4/WIN/Xbox 360/Xbox OneGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, voice acting/ motion capture, politics/ideology/history, narrative themes, Black NPCs, intersectionality Haunted by her past, coping with unimaginable loss and regret, you will discover what took Michonne away from Rick, Ezekiel, and the rest…
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The Gunk
Developer: Image and Form GamesPublisher: ThunderfulRelease Year: 2021Platform: Win/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, voice acting/ motion capture, Narrative themes, intersectionality You play as Rani, a scavenger who has arrived on an alien planet with her partner Beck. As you search for treasure you discover that the planet’s various biomes have been…
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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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Sunset Overdrive
Developer: Insomniac GamesPublisher: Microsoft StudiosRelease Year: 2014, 2018 (Win)Platform: Win/Xbox OneGenre: Action Adventure, Third Person Shooter Taxonomy: Robust character creation system; Playable Black character Set in Sunset City, in 2027, tasked with cleaning up the mess left behind from a party FizzCo, you must fight humans whose endocrine systems have gone into overdrive from consuming…
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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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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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Remember Me
Developer: Don’t NodPublisher: CapcomRelease Year: 2013Platform: PS3/WIN/Xbox OneGenre: Action Adventure Taxonomy: Playable Black characters, Black NPCs; Intersectionality Set in 2084, in Neo-Paris, a small group of rebels, Errorists, attempt to bring down Memorize, a corporation that invented a brain implant that enables 99% of the population to upload and share memories with people and have…