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Empathy for the devil. Or at least the NSA.

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Classroom Aquatic and cheating at the dawn of VR

How the helmet changes the wearer.

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Blind yourself.

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How to rebrand the most morally bankrupt human activity.

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Placing faith in The Last Cargo’s atheist allegory

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Videogames and dance music have a long standing connection but what’s really behind this happy marriage?

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The unimpeachable optimism of Cosmochoria

The rise of shiny happy people … in deep space.

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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.

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The ghost towns and metropolises of Everquest, fifteen years later

What keeps an aging MMO alive?

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Why do we love to play the hero?

From Infamous to Mass Effect, we move toward good.