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Everything you ever feared about conversation now exists in game form
In Menagerie, the conversation never ends. Menagerie physically traps you in conversation. Welcome to Menagerie, the networking event from hell.
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Enter, Stage Right makes a performance out of overcoming anxiety
There’s no tutorial for dealing with anxiety.
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Relive the traumatic anxiety of being a child in Angst
Because who doesn’t miss those horrible, horrible times. It was the worst time of your life as a kid, and now it’s a videogame, scaring the crap out of you.
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Silent Hill 2’s endings aren’t what you want, but what you deserve
Or: Why I’ve never seen “In Water.”
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Within’s impossible spaces play with your anxiety
You’re a lab rat chasing the cheese around a maze devised to break your mind.
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I had a panic attack while playing The Walking Dead. Is this a good thing?
What games can help us overcome.
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What Now? is a glitchy recreation of modern anxiety
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Strike Vector is lovely and completely terrifying
You will be jostled.
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République shocks the system and redefines mobile gaming in the process
This is the way our paranoia ends: not with privacy, but revelations.
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New advances in videogame therapy heal the mind and soothe the soul.
There’s been a proliferation lately of games that address mental illness – particularly anxiety and depression. From the brilliant, difficult Actual Sunlight to today’s release of Depression Quest, the taboo of talking about mental illness in game is starting to peel back. Anecdotally, it also seems
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Crush is the first-person game about cubes (and people) with anxiety disorders
“Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the theologian Søren Kierkegaard famously wrote in his philosophical work The Concept of Anxiety. What he meant was this: because we are autonomous beings, having the ability to think for ourselves, we are prone to worrying over the choices we make. You could s
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Tura, Lost at Sea
A Personal Account of EverQuest, Grad School and Surviving Anxiety