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How Red Dead Online Helped Me Talk To My Brother About Mental Health
Articles, General, Submissions December 4, 2019

How Red Dead Online Helped Me Talk To My Brother About Mental Health

“It’s a nasty world out there, and it’s catching up with us…” Read Dead Redemption 2, 2019 Author: Brandon Cole It’s 2001 and a much cuter and happier me is
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How Xbox Live Helped Me Go Outside
Articles, General, Submissions October 21, 2019

How Xbox Live Helped Me Go Outside

Author: Alina Bradford Just a few years ago, I was pretty much a shut-in. The clinical term is agoraphobia, but for the people around me, it looked a lot like
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Finding Serenity in Chaos: Violence and Easy Mode
Articles, General, Submissions September 5, 2019

Finding Serenity in Chaos: Violence and Easy Mode

Author: Grace Hester Violence in video games has always been a contentious issue, especially lately. It’s created a sort of stigma that’s been very difficult, if not impossible, for games
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What Remains of Edith Finch – How Family Can Build Us Up and Tear Us Down
Articles, General, Submissions August 29, 2019

What Remains of Edith Finch – How Family Can Build Us Up and Tear Us Down

Author: Caitlin Burns Throughout history, the concept of family has always been a central part of our lives. From autobiographies to Twitter threads, we like to share tales from our
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Finding Serenity In Darkness: The Potential of Horror Video Games
Articles, General, Submissions August 22, 2019

Finding Serenity In Darkness: The Potential of Horror Video Games

Author: Michael Pementel *Author’s note: The experiences of this author do not represent every individual with depression, Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder, or other mental illnesses. The following is based on the author’s observations
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From the Depths to the Summit
Articles, Submissions June 3, 2019

From the Depths to the Summit

Author: Belinda Quantock “Don’t ever stop. Always keep going, no matter what happens and is taken from you. Even when life is so unfair, don’t give up.” – Ezio, Assassin’s
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GRIS: the Power of the Unsaid
Articles, General, Submissions February 7, 2019

GRIS: the Power of the Unsaid

Author: Viola Nicolucci – psychologist psychotherapist Gris is a platform game that includes puzzles. Designed by indie studio Nomada, based in Barcelona, Spain. Published by Devolver. The game was released
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Why We Need Both Silly and Serious Games
Articles, Submissions January 14, 2019

Why We Need Both Silly and Serious Games

There are generally two different types of games: There’s the kind of game that changes our lives; the story and characters are so intense that we kinda feel that we
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Deceiving oneself and others in “One Thousand Lies”
Articles, Submissions October 11, 2018

Deceiving oneself and others in “One Thousand Lies”

Author: Devonis This is a guest post and does not represent the views of CheckPoint. Over the last few days I played a Visual Novel named “One Thousand Lies”. Developed by
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Chess Against Anxiety
Articles, Submissions August 13, 2018

Chess Against Anxiety

Author: Asrar This is a guest post and does not represent the views of CheckPoint.   As a chess player for ~20 years myself, I found it increasingly helping to
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