Girl power videogame champions body positivity
Creators of multiplayer Slam City Oracles stir a riot grrl inspired ruckus with laugh-out-loud trampoline chaos that makes players feel comfortable in their own skin.
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Brigador wants you to die with dignity
A walking simulator filled with guns.
Dogmeat, Fallout 4, and the Anxiety of Everything
Dogmeat is a man’s best friend
When Obsidian got Fallout very, very right
Fallout 3 had heart. New Vegas had brains and cynicism.
With Miitomo, Nintendo escapes into the real world
Nintendo isn’t making a game for your smartphone. They’re making something better.
The Case of Lara C.: A Rise of the Tomb Raider Review
The only way to understand the latest Tomb Raider game is as a failed psychotherapy.
Speak up, D4
Swery’s episodic game is sublimely bizarre.
The Steam Machine wants to end an age-old war in games
A console for the in-between spaces
Getting Trapped in Metal Gear Solid V’s War Economy
Debt, industrialism, and the systems of modern war.
Halo 5’s Warzone mode is a glorious clusterf*ck
Never change, Halo 5’s absolutely bonkers Warzone mode
Videogames and ’80s Hollywood Masculinity: A Love Story
Videogames are stuck in the era of Rambo.
5 Queer Video Games Breaking the Mold
Indie game developers create narratives that showcase queer culture beyond gender identity, connecting with players through universal human experiences.
Stillness is the move
From Tokyo Story to Kentucky Route Zero, art speaks through silence.
The aura of Twitch
How watching others play brings something new to the art of games.
The Basement’s Basement
Silent Hill’s such a screwed-up city even its buildings have issues.
The creepypasta hell inside Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Why videogames are great for creepypasta.
Sun Dogs uses text to interrogate our solar system
The space-opera scale of Mass Effect, now in text adventure form.
One of the best horror movies of the millennium is a YouTube compilation of Silent Hill 2’s cutscenes
In my restless dreams, I see that YouTube compilation…
The unified theory of all zombie fiction
The core of all zombie fiction isn’t brains. It’s heart
We Need to Stop Letting Everyone Save the World
Did you beat Life is Strange? Let’s have a chat, then.
Transformers: Devastation is a Platinum-strength exercise in nostalgia
Look back in anger.
Why are we so afraid to walk?
A budding movement in games takes its first steps.
The Rise of Dating Sims for Women
A traditionally Japanese genre is learning how to spread its wings in the west.
Revisiting the original, quietly revolutionary Assassin’s Creed
The original Assassin’s Creed had a radical agenda that later games forgot.
Science says your gaming experiences may be shams
In case you weren’t already convinced that games are total bullshit, here’s a study in the New Scientist that claims the placebo effect—that noted scourge of hypochondriacs and homeopaths—also works in videogames. Ok, not everything is bullshit, but at least some of it is. The study at hand, which