Area 5 on the quest to make a This American Life for videogames
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Box Art Review: The surreal consumption of Katamari Damacy
What could be inside this thing? Everything.
Videogame design in an age of biological feedback
How a surplus of data can help and hurt creators.
As I Play, Dying: My Afternoon with Shovel Knight and 1001 Spikes
Retro games are here to kill us all.
Playlist 2/5: The Wolf Among Us gets dark, Pale Machine tickles, and The Floor is Jelly rebuilds the platformer
Snowed in? Warm up with our picks from this week’s Playlist.
Inside the twenty-year collaboration that brought us Psychonauts, Full Throttle, and Broken Age
Meet the John Williams to Tim Schafer’s Spielberg.
The story behind the strange, loveable Crypt of the NecroDancer
One cannot simply mash things up.
When you’re playing Titanfall, something might sound different. Here’s why
We talk to composer Stephen Barton about his innovative recording techniques.
The strange etymology of the word "joystick"
As usual: thank Stephen King.
Hunting Anubis turns the dogfight into a brutal, stealth cold war
Hide and go seek-and-destroy.
PlayStation Now needs to be the Netflix of videogames
Future perfect.
How The Vanishing of Ethan Carter took over the Internet with three .gifs
Adrian Chmielarz of the Astronauts tells us of unspeakable horrors.
Why Nintendo’s announcements this week may save us all
Don’t be worried. Be excited.
Forget Madden, let’s simulate the Super Bowl using Smash Brothers
Someone had to. Well, maybe not. We did anyway.
What does Bravely Default: Flying Fairy say about the future of the JRPG?
Some notes on the house that Chocobos built.
The biggest battle in Eve Online came down to a line score
How war happens in deep cyberspace.
Wearable tech could help erotic videogames become truly mature
New forms of input and output mean narrative reactions can become physical ones.
Playlist 1/29: Paper Sorcerer dungeoneers, Rust teaches us survival, and DEIOS glitches out
Wanna play something? Here are three somethings.
Dan Pinchbeck talks about Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and why Myst sucks
Inside the most horrifyingly quiet game of 2014.
You cannot win Fort McMoney, but you should still play it
How a harrowing documentary on a Canadian boom town attracted the attention of Will Wright and a couple hundred thousand Europeans.
How CD Projekt Red is reinventing the open world in The Witcher 3
Is bigger necessarily better?
Will Jazzpunk be the funniest game ever?
A behind-the-scenes look at what we’re gonna call a Gex killer.
Box art review: The pure terror of Resident Evil Outbreak: File #2
It’s the details that count.
Go behind the scenes of Scale, Steve Swink’s maybe-masterpiece
A game of proportions gets big.
