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Cosplaying with the creator of how do you Do It?
Kyle Reimergartin is still hungry
Will the Fjords creator ever get his fill?
Kill Screen presents The Emergents
Ten designers pushing videogames forward.
Firewatch’s design is rich with American history
The New Deal, renewed.
Should all videogames be free?
Spaceteam and the future of game funding.
What can Civilization V teach us about history?
Playing around with, you know, the story of humanity.
What TIME got wrong about The Last of Us
No photographer could capture what made Naughty Dog’s game great.
Four Things I Learned While Writing a Book about Super Mario Bros. 2
Lessons from the frontline of Nintendo lore.
Inside the cut-throat economy of Eve Online
All’s fair in love and space war.
Panzer Dragoon Saga: A Personal History
Exploring a world of shade.
For Storium, the future of storytelling is more like a return
Reviving the oral tradition.
How to make a 1500 year old game interesting again
Damian Sommer’s chess breaks what may’ve already been broken.
Alien: Isolation might do the impossible: make Alien scary again
You have my sympathies.
How videogame currencies could effect real-world economies
Was Bitcoin just the beginning?
Virtual reality lets horror fans scare themselves in all new ways
Exploring new textures of terror.
The worldly anxieties of Sam Farmer’s Last Life
Change is coming. What are you going to do about it?
Twitch is worth a billion dollars, and Pewdiepie is a force for good (no, seriously)
What the Twitch acquisition says about spectatorship, interaction and play.
The secret to understanding The Swapper
What psychoanalysis has to do with the existential puzzler.
Hatoful Boyfriend isn’t quite as weird as it thinks
What would it be like to truly love a bird?
Oculus Connect: The awkward, glorious salad days of VR
A boom time for prognostication.
The Luigi Death Stare and why memes take root
Deciphering the language of play.
The return of Aphex Twin, and why it matters
Richard D. James is the ghost in the machine.
How a group of players cracked open Quake 3 and found a new way to play
We could learn a lot from the trickjumping movement.
A Comprehensive History of Low-Poly Art, Pt. 3
How the low-poly aesthetic extends the timeless ideals of Modern art.