Peter Molyneux’s "answer" to Curiosity exposes our naked desire to conform
On Memorial Day, we reflect on what the “big reveal” at the center of Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity really means.
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Chiptune is dead. Long live chiptune.
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Jason Rohrer hid a board game in the Nevada desert. So we went looking for it.
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Andy Schatz’s long-awaited Monaco is a deft tribute to the heist film, but builds a world all its own.
How a Guggenheim fellow obsessed over Atari’s Breakout — and found the future instead
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A Norwegian studio captures the fear of childhood with the eeriest of intentions. Also, trolls!
Is Sifteo the new Nintendo?
A rogue upstart from San Francisco wants to change the way we play.
Nintendo is caught in a generation gap
The coming age war at the House of Mario.
Introducing DRONE, an ethically-bending card game for the guilty American
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