What We’ve Lost: Nintendo In Iwata’s Words
The man who gave us our first real glimpse behind Nintendo’s iron curtain.
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Playtime with TimePlay, the horrible pre-movie advertising game
How movie ads have merged with games.
Journey’s greatest gift to videogames was telling us all to shut up
Journey returns to PS4, and with it, the gift of quiet
Canada’s Manifest Destiny: the game
Videogames are just as powerful at distorting history as preserving it.
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and a More Human Kind of Apocalypse
We talk to Dan Pinchbeck about his upcoming jaunt through the apocalypse.
Killing Lara Croft
Our 20-year obsession with the Tomb Raider’s demise
In honor of Arkham Knight, we replayed the worst Batman games ever made
The Idiot Adventures of Batman and Robin.
SOMA and the horror of perception
The “fantastical anuses” (among other things) of SOMA.
Reconsidering the epic violence in the God of War saga
An apologist’s take on one of videogames’ most violent series.
Watching sports in VR returns power to the viewer
The NHL, Nascar, MLB and NBA are all investigating broadcasting to headsets.
From Fez to It Follows: a conversation with Disasterpeace
We talk with Disasterpeace about videogames and scoring this year’s best horror film.
The history of photography could predict the future of videogames
Photography learned what made it unique. Games are too.
Satoru Iwata, 1959 – 2015
Nintendo’s fourth-ever president has died.
The fork in the road
Wolfenstein: The New Order and the history of alternate histories.
Enough with the post-apocalypse. What about the pre-apocalypse?
A lot of games are about saving the world, but Eco might actually do it.
Magic Mike XXL and the human side of ogling meaty man bits
Magic Mike, John Marston, and butts butts butts.
The new Terminator movie is what happens when old people get scared of technology
Baby boomers versus wearables. With explosions.
Going to Hell: DOOM II and the Descent Into Chaos
DOOM II didn’t iterate on DOOM—it opposed it
The economics of Bloodborne; or, why you keep clocking into Destiny
The Bloodborne economy values its workers.
The frenetic past and bright future of the bullet hell shooter
Danmaku games have proven uniquely resilient.
There is one problem with every wrestling game ever made
Wrestling is fake. Its games aren’t fake enough.
eSports are gaining in popularity, but do the games support it?
Imperfect games and perfected strategies may create an esports bubble.
The hardcore gamers of Tinder
What is the ultimate player of Tinder like?
Mulaka, Never Alone, and videogames as cultural agents
Games can keep history alive.
The demonic properties of an ampersand
The classic roguelike NetHack has a surprisingly complicated portrayal of evil.