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Tanks in your pockets, Q*bert marathons, and a new stream of motion-control
Take a breath and relax.
A nine-year-old girl turned RPG maker, our favorite game sounds, and Ducktales!
We often get digital recreations of the past in the form of modern-day remakes. But what about imagined futures? Michael Thomsen writes at Complex.com about an article from 1988 that prefigured what our world would look like in the far-off future of 2013. Turns out the way we envision tomorrow tells
Celebrate the father of videogames, design a kitty cat app, and guess Miyamoto’s blood type
Spring is all about beginnings: the budding flowers, the cleaned-out closets, our renewed addiction to sugar-coated marshmallow baby chicks. This short documentary profiles Ralph Baer, inventor of the Magnovox Odyssey, the first commercially-viable videogame console and the root of what we play tod
Sinking subs, two-player Tetris, and why Portal has a punchline-problem
Two days of winter remain. Read these and go for one last sled ride while you can. Sure, GlaDOS made some quips. But can a game truly be a comedy? One enterprising lad sought an answer (and asked our co-founder for insight along the way). Speaking of laughs: Nothing gets my gut jiggling like a subma