Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Tonight on GeekNights, we review Paris Connection, also known as SNCF: France & Germany. It's no 1817, but it's a distilled real train game that's worth playing. In the news, Overwatch 1 is back and Diablo 2 is back.
— Things of the Day —
Rym: Canada Curling Controversey
Scott: Battlegroup Clash: Baltics
Episode Link:
frontrowcrew.com/tuesday/20260217/paris-connection
Tonight on GeekNights, we review Paris Connection, also known as SNCF: France & Germany. It's no 1817, but it's a distilled real train game that's worth playing. In the news, Overwatch 1 is back and Diablo 2 is back.
— Things of the Day —
Rym: Canada Curling Controversey
Scott: Battlegroup Clash: Baltics
Episode Link:
frontrowcrew.com/tuesday/20260217/paris-connection

![The Narrator in “Slay the Princess”
Slay the Princess has a uniquely unreliable narrator.
Presented at Super #magfest 2026 on Saturday, exploring #modernity and #metacontextualism in #videogames and #gamedesign.
Games can be viewed through the lens of the environment in which they were made. The same as film, literature, and art in general. We commonly see parallel artistic and philosophical movements with the same name and many shared ideas. E.g., Classicism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, and… what?
What’s after Post-Modernism? Perhaps “Metacontextualism.” This is a movement of art and design, unique in and catalyzed by the existence of videogames. Remember that videogames are a literally new form of art. They were invented in the lifespan of people who are attending MAGFest today.
Panelists: Rym DeCoster [Producer of GeekNights, frontrowcrew.com] Emily Compton [Art Director, 3D Artist]
Full lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12xey7NqSFg The Narrator in “Slay the Princess”](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tY6GqdACkOw/mqdefault.jpg)
![Game Mechanics are art
Roger Ebert was dead wrong about it. Games are art.
Presented at Super #magfest 2026 on Saturday, exploring #modernity and metacontextualism in videogames and game design.
What’s after Post-Modernism? Perhaps “Metacontextualism.” This is a movement of art and design, unique in and catalyzed by the existence of videogames. Remember that videogames are a literally new form of art. They were invented in the lifespan of people who are attending MAGFest today.
Panelists: Rym DeCoster [Producer of GeekNights, frontrowcrew.com] Emily Compton [Art Director, 3D Artist]
Full lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12xey7NqSFg Game Mechanics are art](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tbPnBsuRu-g/mqdefault.jpg)







