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Nolan Good

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Freelance game journalist with bylines at Game Informer, Willamette Week, Lost in Cult (upcoming). Alphinaud’s best bud, Emet-Selch apologist

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Seattle Anti-War Activists Disrupt Rush-Hour Traffic

By Izzy McCabe, Nolan Good |Popular Resistance

2 days ago Recently the name Department of Defense was retired and that federal agency in charge of the military was given its original name, Department of War. Immediately president Donald Trump implied via one of his Truth Social posts that he was declaring war on the city of Chicago. He then walked back his comment claiming that "We're not going to war.

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Seattle anti-war activists disrupt rush-hour traffic, hold solidarity rally with Global Sumud Flotilla

By Izzy McCabe, Nolan Good |Fight Back! News Verified

By Izzy McCabe and Nolan Good Seattle, WA – On October 2, Seattleites took to the streets in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, protesting the humanitarian aid fleet’s illegal interception by Israel the previous day. Nearly 100 activists packed into over 40 cars to form a motor caravan and cruised through some of the busiest streets in downtown Seattle during rush hour, disrupting traffic and unloading afterwards at a rally.

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The Continuing Legacy Of Final Fantasy XI

By Nolan Good |Game Informer Verified

Square Enix is celebrating Final Fantasy XI's 23rd anniversary right now with new updates to the game, which you can read about here. In honor of the game's impressive longevity, we've published this piece about the game's enduring legacy that appeared in Issue 366 of Game Informer. You can now read the full piece here for free! The print magazine will be back very, very soon. To be notified when you will be able to subscribe, make a Game Informer account here.

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Slitterhead and Kowloon

By Nolan Good |Medium

“Nevertheless [the Walled City] still feels like an enclave within a city, extra-territorial and even slightly unreal. It is a frightful slum. No vehicle can enter it — there are no streets wide enough — and its buildings, rising sometimes to 10 or 12 storeys, are so inextricably packed together that they seem to form one congealed mass of masonry, sealed together by overlapping structures, ladders, walkways, pipes and cables, and ventilated only by fetid air-shafts.

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Looking Up at Midgar

By Nolan Good |Medium

While Final Fantasy VII Remake’s opening chapter, with its pitch-perfect recreation of the Mako reactor assault filled to the brim with clever script reworks and visual homage, is the quintessential vertical slice, the game really begins to show its promise a little later. After things quiet down and the party returns to the sector 7 slums, the player is asked to direct Cloud to a run-down apartment for some rest.

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Jr. Season Highlights

By Nolan Good |Hudl.com

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"Friction" and the Streets of Saint Denis

By Nolan Good |Medium

One of the criticisms of Red Dead Redemption 2 that always rubbed me the wrong way was the idea that it punished the player unfairly for things outside their control.

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Week 6 Vs. O.falls

By Nolan Good |Hudl.com

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Week 4 Vs. Elyria 1 Half

By Nolan Good |Hudl.com

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The Unlikely Development Of The First Splinter Cell

By Nolan Good |Game Informer Verified

Splinter Cell’s star has faded. In the years since Sam Fisher’s last outing, 2013’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist, he’s made a handful of cameo appearances and even shown his battle-worn visage at a conference or two. And there is a remake on the way – of which we’ve only seen concept art. But by most measures, the franchise has been dormant for a decade.

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Week 3 Vs Glenville

By Nolan Good |Hudl.com

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The Extraordinary Video Game Worlds of 2021

By Nolan Good |Willamette Week Verified

We spent a lot of 2021 indoors, insulated from ice storms or heat waves or just playing it safe from new strains of the coronavirus. It was quite a year for video games and for wide masses of fans to be moved by this truly unique art form. Thanks to online gaming, space collapsed and the world found passion for an Australian puzzle narrative about unpacking a woman’s clothes. But the Pacific Northwest got a few nods in there too. Here’s our list of our favorite worlds explored indoors in 2021.

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Lake’s Video Game Portrait of Rural Oregon Is Shallow but Pleasantly Meditative

By Nolan Good |Willamette Week Verified

In the rural, pristine town of Providence Oaks, Ore., circa 1986, a woman delivers mail. The premise of Lake isn’t unfamiliar to indie gamers: A software developer trades her career in the big city for an idyllic, small-town life. What’s perhaps interesting to Oregonians, however, is the way that Lake was created by Gamious—a company founded by two brothers from the Netherlands.

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How Did Game Designers From the Netherlands Capture the Look and Feel of Small Town Oregon Better Than Any Other Video Game?

By Nolan Good |Willamette Week Verified

The year is 1986. A 40-something woman named Meredith Weiss has decided to put her software career on hold to return to her sleepy hometown in rural Oregon and deliver mail. And...well, that’s pretty much the whole story. It sounds like the plot to a slow-paced indie drama. In truth, it’s a video game. On paper, the upcoming Lake doesn’t exactly read like a nonstop thrill ride. But what it lacks in action it more than makes up for in its immersive environment.

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Why The Original Final Fantasy 7 Is Still Worth Playing

By Nolan Good |Screen Rant Verified

There's a reason Final Fantasy 7 spread like wildfire when it originally released, and it wasn't just novelty. Twenty-four years later, it holds up. Email 2020's Final Fantasy 7 Remake has revitalized the world of Square Enix's 1997 classic and brought Midgar back into popular consciousness, but the original game it draws from shouldn't be forgotten in its wake.

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Every Resident Evil Remake Game, Ranked Worst to Best

By Nolan Good |Screen Rant Verified

Capcom is slowly working its way up the Resident Evil franchise with remakes, to varying degrees of success. Here are the best (and worst) so far. Email The original Resident Evil, released in 1996, not only kickstarted one of Capcom's most successful and enduring franchises, it also cemented years worth of survival horror genre conventions. Twenty five years later, the series is still going strong, but those early entries haven't aged as gracefully as their sterling reputations.

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Every Yakuza Game, Ranked Worst to Best

By Nolan Good |Screen Rant Verified

Over eight mainline games and 32 years of narrative, there's a lot of Yakuza to play. Here are the best (and worst) of the long-running franchise. Email Yakuza: Like a Dragon, the recent soft reboot of the long-running Yakuza series, has drawn a lot of attention with its over-the-top action and detailed, modern setting. For newcomers to the series interested in exploring past games, however, the sheer scale of the saga can be daunting.

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How a Local Company Is Saving Forgotten Video Games From the Dustbin of History

By Nolan Good |Willamette Week Verified

It was a dark night in Guatemala, and Stephen Kick just wanted to play an old video game. Specifically, System Shock 2, the 1999 first-person shooter lauded as one of the most influential PC games of its time. It was 2008, and Kick, who had recently left his job as a character artist for Sony Online Entertainment, was traveling South America with his girlfriend in search of inspiration for what to do next. He was holed up in a hostel, and a tropical thunderstorm was raging outside.

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The Emerald GamesCast: 'The Last of Us Part II -- Spoilercast'

By Nolan Good, Janelle Dutton, Jamie Diep Verified, Frankie Redfern |Daily Emerald Verified

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out.

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This Oregon-Based Vlogger Might Be the Closest Thing Video Games Have to Roger Ebert

By Nolan Good |Willamette Week Verified

Noah Caldwell-Gervais didn't set out to make a career of reviewing video games. At first, he just needed something to take his mind off the job he did have at the time, working as a line cook at a Seattle pizzeria. "It was boredom," the 32-year-old says of the impulse to post his first critique online. "I wanted really, really badly to have something in my life that wasn't just, like, pizza." In February 2013, Caldwell-Gervais uploaded a 50-minute analysis of the Fallout series to YouTube.

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Play This: “Return of the Obra Dinn” Is a Ghostly Mystery Set in the 1800s With a Look Straight Out of the 1980s

By Nolan Good |Willamette Week Verified

Return of the Obra Dinn (Unity) There is an elegant charm to old, monochromatic films shared by early video games. While retro-themed games often call on the 16-bit sprites of classic RPGs or the cartoonish proportions of old mascot platformers, Lucas Pope's Return of the Obra Dinn instead channels the dithered, 1-bit black-and-white graphics of '80s computers like the Macintosh.

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The Emerald Gamescast': Simulated Normalcy (Episode 21)

By Janelle Dutton, Nolan Good, Alex McKnight |Daily Emerald Verified

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The Emerald GamesCast': The Animal Crossing Special (Bonus April Fools Episode)

By Alex McKnight, Nolan Good, Janelle Dutton |Daily Emerald Verified

Nolan, Janelle and Alex get together to talk about the incredibly popular and successful game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and talk about the joys of living in a world where the worst thing you have to worry about is the falling turnip market or not catching that big fish you saw in the river the other day.

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The Emerald GamesCast': The Animal Crossing Special (Bonus Episode)

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The Hottest Video Game of the Moment Involves Doing Chores, Paying Your Mortgage and Conversing With Friends

By Nolan Good |Willamette Week Verified

Want to get away? Of course you do. Unfortunately, leaving home for more than a brisk walk, let alone a vacation, is not really an option right now. But it's still possible to escape—to frolic in the sun, rebuild society, and drink coffee with a raccoon. Nintendo's long-running Animal Crossing series of video games has been comforting players for nearly two decades, but its most recent entry couldn't have been released at a better time.

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‘The Emerald GamesCast’: Anime Minecraft (Episode 18)

By Nolan Good, Janelle Dutton |Daily Emerald Verified

In their triumphant return to the podcast booth, Nolan, Janelle and Alex talk about their favorite games of 2019, their expectations for 2020 and the rumors surrounding the imminent PlayStation 5 news avalanche. Theme music is "Flamingo (Azureflux Remix)" by Kero Kero Bonito (freemusicarchive.org/music/Kero_Ker…zureflux_remix), modified under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

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The legacy of Minoru Yasui: How a UO Law grad challenged the U.S. Supreme Court

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

In the spring of 1986, more than 40 years after World War II so forcefully brought them together, two men met in a diner outside of Denver to catch up. One was George Nakata, a second-generation Japanese American who was working at the time in international trade. The other, also a second-generation Japanese American, was Minoru Yasui — a 70-year-old University of Oregon Law School graduate with a lifetime of successful law practice and community service behind him.

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City Council passes a resolution condemning white nationalism

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

The Eugene City Council passed a resolution Monday condemning white nationalism and a number of other forms of bigotry, including homophobia, sexism, transphobia and anti-semitism. The decision was unanimous after revisions and a re-vote, held Wednesday.

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Pacific Rim students travel to UO to brainstorm solutions for local charities

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

From 29 universities and numerous countries around the Pacific Rim, 53 students came to Oregon to participate in the Association of Pacific Rim Universities’ Undergraduate Leader Program.

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Audit shows increase in public complaints against Eugene Police

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

Complaints against employees and officers of the Eugene Police Department increased 20 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to an audit released last week. The Eugene Police Auditor's 2018 report documented 392 complaints in 2018, compared to the 325 filed in 2017. The report noted hiring new, inexperienced officers in the coming years may increase complaints. Among the complaints are 48 allegations of misconduct, 27 of which were against 15 employees.

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New Provost Patrick Phillips aims to bring UO community together amid budget crisis

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

Former University of Oregon Provost Jayanth Banavar resigned effective July 1, and he has passed the torch to his successor: Patrick Phillips. Phillips, who has worked at the university since 2000 as both an educator and an administrator (including two years as the executive director of the Knight Campus), said he plans to strengthen the school's role as a benefit to the state.

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How UOPD responded to the perceived shooting threat

By Nolan Good, Benjamin Irish |Daily Emerald Verified

Editor's note: The Emerald chose not to use the student’s or his family members’ names or personal details in this story due to privacy concerns. Over Mother’s Day weekend, rumors of a shooting threat against the University of Oregon went viral. Anxiety settled over campus in the days between the first social media posts made on Thursday, May 9 about the alleged shooting-to-come and the statement from University of Oregon Police Department declaring the threat false four days later.

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'The Emerald GamesCast': Woolo's Reign (Episode 9)

By Nolan Good, Alex McKnight, Danny Latoni |Daily Emerald Verified

The Pokémon Company graces humanity with a new, adorable pocket monster, Cuphead invades our roads, Death Stranding gets a release date, and the crew talks about their wishes for the upcoming Smash Bros. DLC. All this and more on episode 9 of The Emerald GamesCast, a weekly industry news show featuring Emerald news reporter Nolan, and his friends Alex and Andrea.

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'The Emerald GamesCast': E3 Predictions (Episode 8)

Nolan, Alex and Andrea talk about what to expect at E3: what's known, what's not, and what they hope to see. --- The Emerald GamesCast is a weekly video game news and discussion podcast from the Emerald Podcast Network with an industry focus. Hosted by three best friends, each episode will provide the listener with a week's worth of gaming headlines and conversation about current releases. Guests welcome, scripts discouraged and passion essential. Episodes come out Tuesdays.

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Historian hosts campus talk highlighting Willamette River pollution

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

When Tom McCall’s landmark documentary “Pollution in Paradise” released in 1962, it forced the public to confront pollution in the Willamette River. The documentary included extended footage of a paper mill along the river bank dumping thousands of gallons of waste into the water. Raw sewage spilled into the Portland Harbor and myriad of other striking visuals depicted the Willamette as something less grand than the mythical beauty which many in Oregon held it to be.

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'The Emerald GamesCast': Acceptable Trash Talk (Episode 5)

By Nolan Good, Alex McKnight, Danny Latoni, Ryan Nguyen Verified |Daily Emerald Verified

Microsoft provides us with some official trash talking advice, an indie dev sneaks a code compiler onto the Nintendo Switch and Riot Games faces large-scale employee protests. All this and more on the fifth episode of The Emerald GamesCast, a weekly industry news show featuring Emerald news and video games beat reporter Nolan, and his friends Alex and Andrea.

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The Emerald GamesCast: 'Krab Kombat' (Episode 4)

By Nolan Good, Alex McNight, Danny Latoni, Sararosa Davies Verified |Daily Emerald Verified

The success of Fortnite comes at the cost of tough working conditions; Mortal Kombat returns to the public consciousness with a new brand of social controversy; and an angry fan throws an actual crab at competitive Smash Bros. superstar HungryBox. All this and more on the fourth episode of The Emerald GamesCast, a weekly industry news show featuring Emerald news and video games beat reporter Nolan, and his friends Alex and Andrea.

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U.S. Air Force drone tech turned human rights activist speaks at UO

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

Former U.S. Air Force drone technician and human rights activist Cian Westmoreland, who made the news in 2015 when he spoke out against the use of military drones in combat, spoke at the University of Oregon this Thursday. The talk was part of a five-city “Whistleblower Tour” through Oregon. Westmoreland helped to construct a relay system that sent aerial footage to drone operators when he was stationed on a U.S. Air Force base in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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The Emerald GamesCast: Mr. Mime Flavor (Episode 3)

By Nolan Good, Sararosa Davies Verified, Regan Nelson Verified, Alex McNight |Daily Emerald Verified

The one and only Reggie steps gracefully into retirement from Nintendo, Xbox ditches the disk drive, and Sony tries to get ahead of the news cycle by getting the word out about the next PlayStation. All this and more on episode 3 of The Emerald GamesCast, a weekly industry news show featuring Emerald news reporter Nolan, and his friends Alex and Andrea. Sources: The Emerald GamesCast is a weekly video game news and discussion podcast from the Emerald Podcast Network with an industry focus.

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The story behind ‘Gone Home': Oregon’s video game critical darling

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

“Gone Home,” the debut video game from indepent, Portland-based developer Fullbright, caused a stir when it arrived in late 2013.

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UO Prison Education Program presents art from inside Oregon prisons

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

The University of Oregon Prison Education Program is running an exhibit featuring pieces created by 20 artists incarcerated in prisons throughout Oregon. The exhibit, called “Emergence: Art From Inside” will run throughout spring term and is located in the EMU’s Adell McMillan Gallery on the second floor.

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The Emerald GamesCast: "Did Kojima want this?" (Episode 2)

By Nolan Good, Danny Latoni, Regan Nelson Verified |Daily Emerald Verified

PlayStation finally lets users change their username, Forbes calls the new Elder Scrolls a glimpse into our potential dystopian future, and Respawn teases a new Star Wars game. All this and more on the second episode of the Emerald GamesCast, a weekly industry news show featuring Emerald news reporter Nolan, and his friends Alex and Andrea.

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Review: ‘Yoshi’s Crafted World’ is beautiful, but too simple

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

Nintendo excels at creating games that offer a high skill ceiling while remaining accessible. Their greatest productions are simple enough for a kid to play comfortably, yet complex enough to hold the attention of dedicated fans for years after the initial release. Such a multi-layered, encompassing design requires the kind of masterful touch that few can pull off, and it separates Nintendo from the crowd. Unfortunately, it seems that sometimes even they miss the mark.

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UO journalism students report solutions for #MeToo, hold discussion

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

A group of University of Oregon journalism students gathered in the Knight Library on Monday at an event hosted by The Catalyst Journalism Project to publicly discuss their experiences reporting on ways to combat sexual violence. The event featured six student reporting groups, each of which worked over winter term on a solutions journalism project related to sexual crimes in Oregon.

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As the game industry grows, game studies finds its way into UO academia

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

A group of University of Oregon professors met last Tuesday to discuss something on all of their minds — the role that games, digital or otherwise, can play in academia. The professors discussed how games can be applied to learning, their increasing academic relevance and the unique challenges and benefits of bringing games into the classroom. The gathering was attended by a broad range of professors who study games of all sorts, from video games to medieval board games.

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The Emerald GamesCast, Episode 1: "Let me level with you"

By Nolan Good, Danny Latoni, Regan Nelson Verified, Alex McKnight |Daily Emerald Verified

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Local police and Eugene community take on UO’s bike theft problem

By Nolan Good, Gina Scalpone |Daily Emerald Verified

Cameron Wallenfels, a senior at the University of Oregon, woke up one morning to find her bike had been stolen while she was sleeping. A single wheel remained, locked to the rack in front of her home. She never got the rest back. “You have a connection with your bike,” Wallenfels said. “And then someone just takes it.

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11,100 Eugene residents without power due to snowfall

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

Today’s snow storm is keeping Eugene Water & Electric Board busy today, with more than 11,100 customers without service out of 92,600 as of publication, according to a press release from EWEB spokesperson Joe Hardwood. The power loss is the result of “widespread damage to the Eugene Water & Electric Board’s distribution system” from heavy snowfall. The heavy snowfall brought trees and branches down onto overhead power lines and damaged power poles.

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Protestors gather on President’s Day to rally against Trump’s national emergency declaration

By Nolan Good |Daily Emerald Verified

Protestors from numerous activist groups met today in front of the Wayne Lyman Morse Federal Courthouse to speak out against President Trump’s national emergency declaration. The group, sponsored by Indivisible Eugene, MoveOn and Win Without War, has met at the same spot every Tuesday for over 2 years, beginning just after the 2016 election.

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