The blood you’ll never see in a game
Bioshock’s troubled view on what makes a woman.
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Rock Simulator 2014 and the persistence of the anti-game
Or: Do we need this?
It’s time for us to stop calling games "indie"
A brave new world awaits.
Steam owes its success to openness, but not too much openness
Valve’s semi-walled garden is an industry standard.
So, what did Watch Dogs actually have to say about surveillance culture?
Empathy for the devil. Or at least the NSA.
Classroom Aquatic and cheating at the dawn of VR
How the helmet changes the wearer.
On learning to play Ultra Street Fighter IV
Blind yourself.
Classic parlor game Werewolf gets rebooted to tear more friends, marriages apart
How to rebrand the most morally bankrupt human activity.
Placing faith in The Last Cargo’s atheist allegory
Life beyond the altar.
How much strain does online gaming put on the Internet?
The answer might surprise you.
The Choreography of Pixels
Videogames and dance music have a long standing connection but what’s really behind this happy marriage?
The unimpeachable optimism of Cosmochoria
The rise of shiny happy people … in deep space.
Videogames can change the way we think about mental illness
The developers of Ether and Actual Sunlight talk to us about the power of interactivity.
The ghost towns and metropolises of Everquest, fifteen years later
What keeps an aging MMO alive?
Why do we love to play the hero?
From Infamous to Mass Effect, we move toward good.
The curious evolution of Nintendo’s new "amiibo"
Nintendo has always made games with heart; now they’re making toys with souls.
Shenmue and the rise of lonelycore games
An open world of closed-off people.
Is EVE Online a videogame or a social network?
How the world’s most interesting MMO sustains itself via social media.
How the heady ‘Irrational Exuberance’ convinced me VR does more than replace the right-stick
Buffalo Vision makes the future now.
In Assassin’s Creed Unity, the crowd is the main character
We chat with Ubi’s crowd-control expert about the wisdom of the crowd.
The fast life and times of a monster in Evolve
No rest (or love) for the wicked.
Heading into the abyss of Lifeless Planet
Breathe with us.
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number’s Map Editor is like a Very Bloody Mario Paint
If you’re clunky and you know it, blast some guards.
Nintendo comes out swinging
Thoughts on Nintendo’s E3 “Digital Event.”