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There is only one way to play the Sims, and that is to cheat
Breaking out of a straitjacket economy.
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Hatoful Boyfriend steps up the comedy game
Come for the pigeons, stay for the satanic undertones.
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The 30th Nancy Drew videogame may be the best one yet
The girl detective is at her best in HerInteractive’s long-running series.
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Don’t underestimate the power of voice
Jennifer Hale and Catherine Burns talk about talking.
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Beyond Glass: How wearable technology changes social interaction
The spiky glove as conversation-starter.
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Creating truly emotional videogame experiences with Kevin Bruner and Rana el Kaliouby
How we all ended up crying at the end of season one.
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The tortured, hateful parentage of South Park: The Stick of Truth
I learned something today: I hate South Park.
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The awfulness and the importance of the dress-up game
The least-discussed genre in videogames makes a comeback.
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The unreal world and work of LaTurbo Avedon
Avatars are people, too.
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How furries wound up in an art gallery in Chelsea
Jon Rafman’s collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never scrapes the far reaches of the Internet.
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This new Minecraft de-make looks just like Minecraft, but what doesn’t
Simplifying the vastness of the Minecraft universe to 252 bytes seems impossible, but French developer and designer p01 did just that with “Minicraft.” p01 has officially beaten Minecraft creator Notch at shrinking his own game. (Notch’s own version of minicraft was 4gb.) Minecraft isn’t the only ga
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Are Romance sims the next Japanese gaming import?
A new article in Edge shows that, in Japan, there has been a rise in the amount of dating games played by women. What’s interesting about this to us isn’t just the demographic research that backs it up (some 49% of unmarried women in Japan do not have a domestic partner), but what it says for romanc