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Creating believable female characters and more on today’s cheat sheet.
The JRPG may be exactly what gaming needs
Gather your shurikens–we’re headed for the ’90s.
Saints Row 4 goes dumbstep, Gone Home takes us back, and Hate Plus’ transhumanist cosplay
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Is Animal Crossing the dark future of our virtual economy?
Better hide those Bitcoins in your mattress.
Playlist 8/14: Pivvot challenges, MirrorMoon celestially enchants, and Electric Super Joy goes hardcore
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Who’s the Bo Jackson of esports?
We go in search of a universal skillset for pro gaming.
Dad? Where’s Mom? I can’t find her in this videogame.
Mom has a thing or two to teach you about game design.
In defense of Phil Fish and ragequitters everywhere
The Fez 2 creator is in good company.
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Who let the dogs out?
Esports in the Olympics? It’s going to be a lot harder than you think.
The future battles with the past–and the International Olympic Committee.
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End your July in stride with our picks from this week’s Playlist…
Can a music videogame teach robot musicians to jam? The new Rocksmith thinks so.
The creators of Rocksmith explore the virtual sessionmate.
Are sequels killing creativity in independent games?
When life gives you lemons, why make Lemons 2?
Meet the voxel, the pixel’s long-lost cousin, and why it became videogames’ Betamax
Ken Silverman spent his early adulthood hoping to voxels would make him the game generation’s Edison. Instead, he became its Tesla.
Animal Crossing is Nintendo’s clandestine answer to Facebook
Has the insidious bug of social networking wormed its way into Animal Crossing: New Leaf?
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Sweaty from that summer heat? Chill out with our picks from this week’s Playlist.
You are the center of attention in Tom Russotti’s Opener
We investigate a new sport for art’s sake in Copenhagen.
Are costumes the new game controllers?
Kaho Abe’s wearable devices are future-chic.
Is there any personal problem that’s "ungameable"?
At the 9th annual Games for Health conference, the macro becomes the micro.
Game & Wario is a schizophrenic mess of wonderful
Sixteen nesting dolls of mini games make this a dizzying madhouse that you’ll love to get lost in