<div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Happy New Year to all!</font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Just seeing a rockin' update on one of our MFA candidates summer essay publication on Mario romhacks and metamodernism. From Sara Hovda –</font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://unwinnable.com/2025/07/02/yearning-for-meaning-maddy-thorsons-super-mario-world-romhacks-and-the-metamodernist-impulse/">https://unwinnable.com/2025/07/02/yearning-for-meaning-maddy-thorsons-super-mario-world-romhacks-and-the-metamodernist-impulse/</a><br></font></div><div><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:22.7px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">UPDATE: the essay was included in a round up of good video game writing! The roundup is here:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://critical-distance.com/2026/01/01/this-year-in-videogame-blogging-2025/">https://critical-distance.com/2026/01/01/this-year-in-videogame-blogging-2025/</a></font></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></p>
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