Grand Theft Auto V Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/grand-theft-auto-v/ Stories about Culture Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:29:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg Grand Theft Auto V Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/grand-theft-auto-v/ 32 32 Finding Lost Santos https://unwinnable.com/2023/09/14/finding-lost-santos/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 04:03:14 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=93134 Carrying out a detailed comparison of GTA5's Los Santos and Los Angeles through the lens of Michel Foucault sheds light on the intricate interplay between space, place, social order and power.

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]]> No Boundaries https://unwinnable.com/2014/01/28/no-boundaries/ Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:37:56 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=48935 You are walking up a mountain path. The midday sun shines high on a quilt of endless blue. Twigs crunch underfoot as you proceed ever higher. Fallen trees and rocks offer momentary diversions to clamber over. Somewhere among the trees deers are grazing. Finally upon reaching the summit, the massive expanse of the land rolls out beneath you, seeking out the horizon. Not far off the city sits serenely; the hustle and bustle of thousands of lives is temporarily hidden. With a sharp click you take a selfie, superimposing your face against the scene, and amble back down the trail.

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]]> Best Games of 2013 https://unwinnable.com/2014/01/03/best-games-of-2013/ Fri, 03 Jan 2014 06:22:32 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=48663 How do you compare Grand Theft Auto V with Papers, Please? Or Assassin’s Creed IV with Gone Home? These are the kinds of questions that have defined 2013. In the year after small studio games dominated the conversation, we’ve not entered the Indie Promised Land. Instead, we found ourselves in a strange landscape, of new consoles no one cares about, of endless debates, of thoughtful AAA games and ephemeral indies. We spent several annoying months hearing people ask, “Is this even a game?” This is all good news. The binaries – indie vs AAA, formalist vs zinester, LOL vs Dota

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