Rachel Helps

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It’s possible to make money from writing about videogames!?

Videogame journalism is tough to break into. Often other writers don’t want you to know about their favorite places to get published, or they simply assume you already know about them. There’s no point where your future income is set, and there are all kinds of weird tax laws when it comes to contra

Navigate this site by playing Mario.

Tired of boring website layouts? This website for the East India techno-fest, Concetto, lets you play Mario to navigate between pages. Jumping to hit a block scrolls through photos of past events, and caves of pipes take you to various sub-pages. Fun for a first-time visit, but probably kind of a pa

PAUSE: Epic cross stitch of all 151 original Pokémon.

Videogame fans are growing up, and we aren’t always satisfied with a five-dollar poster anymore. While there are plenty of prints and figures for the fan with a little more money, some prove their love of videogames with long hours of labor. Eponases made this cross stitch of all original 151 Pokémo

Timeless style in SpyParty inspired by The Incredibles.

The new art style for the still-in-beta game SpyParty is a paragon of taste. SpyParty is a game where you must hide in plain sight and engage in psychological sleuthing to figure out who the other spies are.  It also involves massive amounts of meta-gaming and high-level brain manipulation on the le

Google’s Play Issue finds AR games at Disney World.

Google has been making its own trendy, well-designed publication with Think Quarterly. Designed by the Church of London, the current issue, The Play Issue, recalls another, similarly-named issue of a quarterly publication. Their article on Disney’s “Imagineering” shows former LucasArts designer Jona

A Dwarf Fortress with a friendly interface?

Dwarf Fortress is notoriously difficult to learn how to play, and also incredibly detailed. The dwarves you order around can go insane or lose limbs. Individual trees have unique names, though the ASCII-like art makes it hard to tell what’s going on for the uninitiated.  One game with a similar feel

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