This light-up corset combines sexuality, technology and gaming
Cronenberg enters La Perla.
Jason Johnson
Batman: Arkham Origins proves that videogame voice acting needs its Orson Welles
Maybe what Batman is missing is Batman.
GTA5’s cellphones are a joke. Are we the punchline?
Rockstar’s humor is either aimless or right on target.
Inside the failed, utopian New Games Movement
How a hippy commune prefigured the videogame community’s love of play.
Is Captain Jameson an unfinishable game?
Farbs never intended for his space saga Captain Forever to actually take forever.
Experimental musician James Ferraro on his new album and its relationship with GTA V
Where the urban environment and the uncanny valley meet.
To Shooter, With Guilt sifts through the rubble of digital warfare
A game jam developer asks what all these digitized drone strikes mean.
Etrian Odyssey Untold breaks the very game it remakes
Consider the tale un-told.
Salty Bet is the most interesting website on the internet right now
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, one round at a time.
We talk to NHL ’94’s producer to figure out why the game is still revered today
Short answer: Roenick, Roenick, Roenick.
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs writer Dan Pinchbeck talks about horror, genocide, and the scene so disgusting he had to cut it
Dan Pinchbeck pushed into dark psychological territory with Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, crafting a protagonist whose moral compromises reflect real horrors.
What are pro gamers stealing from Bill Belichick?
Work hard, play hard.
Even this cartographer loves Grand Theft Auto 5
“This is a map that you’ve got to read with sunglasses on,” he says.
Maybe what fighting games need is to be dumber
Divekick, Killer Instinct, and the fine art of button mashing.
What’s better, a controller or a keyboard? Blizzard settles the debate for us
This was sort of a trick question, but we do have an answer.
What can broadcast sports learn from videogames?
Inside the 0s and 1s that are making Xs and Os more sensible.
Is there a Jewish identity in videogames?
We talk to a range of figures in the videogame world—including Warren Spector—to find out.
Is Watch Dogs a fantasy, a nightmare, or a reality?
Ubisoft’s new game typifies the modern nanny state.
How The Bureau: XCOM Declassified came about its freewheeling camera
Trial, error, and a bunch of genre shifts.
Gone Home’s Steve Gaynor on how the internet ruined adventure games and reliving the 90s
The former BioShock narrative designer recalls a time when snooping was more than just sneaking a peak at someone’s iPhone.
Is Saints Row the most stupidly sublime game ever?
Volition’s latest is everything that is wrong with videogames. We mean that in a good way.
Who’s the Bo Jackson of esports?
We go in search of a universal skillset for pro gaming.
Esports in the Olympics? It’s going to be a lot harder than you think.
The future battles with the past–and the International Olympic Committee.
