Category: Video Games

Tonight We Riot Podcast at Xator Nova’s Twitch Channel

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Thanks to those for having attended the livestream of the podcast in which Xator Nova and I discussed our thoughts on the video game Tonight We Riot, a “revolutionary crowd brawler about worker liberation” developed by Pixel Pushers Union 512 and published by Means Interactive.

Those who failed to attend the Twitch livestream yet wish to watch the podcast can do so by clicking on the following link.

While I believe the podcast went relatively successful, I cannot help but feel a bit dissatisfied with my comments on the game. Hopefully, I will be able to submit a more elaborate critique regarding Tonight We Riot on Red Spectre Writings within the next week or so. While I wish to keep video game reviews at a minimum on this website, I do believe that Tonight We Riot can be used as a good case example of media that reinforces or reflects the political eclecticism and tendency to understand political struggle in an oversimplified and non-historical fashion that are prevalent among the ‘political left’, especially in the Global North. When art fails to contribute to the elevation of our political consciousness, then it is up to proper analysis and critique to make an attempt.

Image: Xator Nova. Podcast – Tonight We Riot (w/ Justice).

Video: CrimsonFlash1996. Podcast – Tonight We Riot (w/ Justice), Twitch, 21 Mar. 2021, www.twitch.tv/videos/958066708.

And… We are Live! + Tonight We Riot

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My apologies for the slight delay, but this website should now be accessible to the public. This is why the first blog post Welcome to Red Spectre Writings is a day older than the launch of the blog itself. Oh well, c’est la vie.

As for any further updates, I will be partaking in a podcast with Xator Nova, who is an independent video game and cinema critic, that will be streamed live via Twitch on Sunday 2021/03/21 at 3 pm EST / 7 pm GMT / 8 pm CET. The podcast episode’s subject matter will revolve around the indie videogame Tonight We Riot, developed by Pixel Pushers Union 512 and published by Means Interactive.

You can watch the livestream by clicking on the link above. For those who are interested, Xator Nova’s blog can be visited here. While our tastes and opinions on video games and cinema are far from the same, I do believe they provide an interesting perspective on popular media that is sometimes under-criticized or criticized for the wrong reasons.

Image: Photogoddle. “The Marx Engels Monument at Schloßplatz, Berlin, Germany (Full View) as It Is during the Works for the Extension of the U5 Line. Marx Sitting, Engels Standing.” File:Marx-Engels Monument Berlin.jpg, Wikimedia, Berlin, 31 July 2018, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marx-Engels_monument_Berlin.jpg. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.