David Leblanc

Writer, Editor, Graphic Designer

Canada

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McGill University, Communications Officer

McGill University Faculty of Dentistry
12/02/2020
Dentistry for the Neurodiverse [Article]

At the Oral Health Clinic for Neurodevelopmental Diversity, Dr. Chantal Czerednikow uses techniques such as music therapy, patient-guided sensory integration and more to help patients with special needs during treatment.

Freelance Games Writing

IGN
3 Ways Fallout 76 Rewrites Its Own Lore - IGN

Not everything is as lore-obsessed Fallout fans expected. Fallout 76 takes place 25 years after the bombs fell, giving you a glimpse of the freshly nuked world before it was eroded by centuries of radiation and scavenger raids.

Haywiremag
09/23/2019
Work from Home - Haywire Magazine

I spent most of grad school writing a 50,000 word thesis on games about work, and the very messy entanglements between and they entail, from the position that the two constructs are separate parts of life.

IGN
What Fallout 5 Can Learn From Fallout 76 - IGN

While Fallout 76 may not have stuck its landing, it does have a few ideas worth carrying forward. Fallout 76 is Bethesda Game Studios' first foray into multiplayer for the popular series. Unfortunately, its launch has drawn tepid responses, to put it mildly.

Academic Games Writing

Master's Thesis, Concordia University
09/01/2018
The Only Game in Town: Simulators and the Circuits of Capitalism

This thesis theorizes the simulator as the paradigmatic video game text reifying the systemic logic and structuring principles of rationalization, abstraction, and productivity at the core of contemporary capitalism.