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Batman: Arkham Origins proves that videogame voice acting needs its Orson Welles
Maybe what Batman is missing is Batman.
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Rockstar’s humor is either aimless or right on target.
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Arma 3’s flabbergasting bullets, quantum physics warp Minecraft, & Interactive Fiction longreads
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Inside the failed, utopian New Games Movement
How a hippy commune prefigured the videogame community’s love of play.
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Is Captain Jameson an unfinishable game?
Farbs never intended for his space saga Captain Forever to actually take forever.
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Experimental musician James Ferraro on his new album and its relationship with GTA V
Where the urban environment and the uncanny valley meet.
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To Shooter, With Guilt sifts through the rubble of digital warfare
A game jam developer asks what all these digitized drone strikes mean.
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Etrian Odyssey Untold breaks the very game it remakes
Consider the tale un-told.
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Salty Bet is the most interesting website on the internet right now
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, one round at a time.
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We talk to NHL ’94’s producer to figure out why the game is still revered today
Short answer: Roenick, Roenick, Roenick.
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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.
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What are pro gamers stealing from Bill Belichick?
Work hard, play hard.