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What does it mean for a videogame to be always on?
Always doesn’t mean forever.
Gavin Craig
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Kentucky Route Zero’s third act is as amorphous as we’d expect
Cardboard Computer’s meandering opus gets … meander-y.
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Finding a place where I don’t belong in The Elder Scrolls Online
It’s harder than you might expect.
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The flat humanity of Jazzpunk
Joke’s on everything.
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Is the Kinect (still) the next big thing?
We talk to writer Tim Carmody about what Kinect is doing right and what it still needs to do.
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Can big data be open data?
Only a few developers have been brave enough to let players see the data they collect on us.
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Final Fantasy XIV: a review in miniquests
On the mutability of experience, particularly if that experience is like a million hours long.
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Puppeteer reminds us that all the world’s a stage
We talk to director Gavin Moore about the fine art of play.
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What makes a videogame a comedy?
Over on Nightmare Mode, Tom Auxier writes that while Borderlands 2 is a funny game, it isn’t really a comedy. There are many facets to video games, but boiled down, they’re a series of actions that tell stories. When I say Borderlands 2 isn’t a comedy, I mean exactly that: it is a very capable, if o
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How Sound Shapes changed game music forever
Game music could move you, but you couldn’t move game music. Then Queasy Games changed the rules.