The Year in Anti-Games
Mountain, Goat Simulator, potato salad, and the new nobrow.
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The Year in Architecture
Learning to play the architecture of Abstract Ritual, NaissanceE and Frank Gehry.
The Year in Ass
Ass is both a source and subject of power, in the real world and in videogames.
The year games got funny again
Goats, microtransactions, anal probes, pizza: 2014 saw a new form of comedy emerge.
Twitch Plays Pokemon and the year in crowdplaying
In 2014, developers gave control to the hivemind.
The Year in Maps
The family resemblance in game maps is getting too strong to ignore.
The Deer God makes you relate to hunter and hunted
Finding karma deep in nature.
Watching sports from a more videogame-like perspective could reinvent them
In praise of the first-person view.
Here Be Monsters
How Dungeons and Dragons lets you map the fantastic places in the corners of your mind.
Can pinball tell a story?
Two new Walking Dead machines provide a case in point.
How four art kids from Melbourne created a bizarre new sport
Push Me Pull You came by its weirdness honestly.
How virtual real estate was made by possible by gaming
The CEO and founder of Floored walks us through building realtime spaces.
Here’s what it’s like to spend a weekend at a castle in Poland doing a Harry Potter larp
Wizarding school is alive and well.
Is it time for us to disregard the Turing Test?
The definitive test for artificial intelligence may be a little too, well, artificial.
A wolf in civil servant’s clothing
Telltale’s detective story was an exploration of dysfunctional government.
If you build it, will they come back?
World of Warcraft and Detroit have responded similarly to dwindling populations.
Contemporary Indian fiction becomes impossible architecture in Somewhere
Somewhere’s nonsensical worlds have a very real-world meaning.
An exclusive excerpt of The Art of Game Design
The game begins with an idea.
Here’s what it’s like to play Steel Battalion in a tricked-out refrigerator box
A notorious game is reawoken.
There is a best way to play Grand Theft Auto 5
An emotional walkthrough.
Want to learn about game design? Go to IKEA
We promise: the Swedish furniture giants are masters of smart play.
What is Master Hand and why does it hate us?
Conspiracy theorists, get out your pencils.
Nintendo has ripped open a transdimensional wormhole and nothing is safe
We ponder the implications of Link in Mario Kart.
Gabriel Knight and the birth of mature storytelling in games
Widening perspectives means abandoning “the target audience.”
John Darnielle tackles pen-and-paper RPGs and suicide in his debut novel
Wolf in White Van is a meditation on not knowing.