On playing Diablo for a very long time
Breaking news: Diablo still good.
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Charting the edges of avant-garde videogames
In 2014 the hot-button theoretical debate has moved on from “can games be art?” to “what is a game?”
Public play yanks videogames into the real world
The troubles and joys of getting people outdoors.
Exploring the seedy underbelly of Velvet Sundown
The heir to DayZ is set aboard a chintzy yacht.
Dota 2 as religious experience
For spectators, The International 4 was sublime.
You are the challenge in Crawl
But good luck figuring out what Crawl really is.
Mini Metro turns the headache of mass transportation into fun
How two brothers gamified your commute.
Daniel Benmergui on the troubles of telling all the world’s stories
The troubles and trials of telling every story ever.
How does Wayward Manor fit into Neil Gaiman’s oeuvre? It doesn’t.
The wayward design of Wayward Manor.
Play Along: The Essay and the Game
What videogames can learn from nonfiction, and vice versa.
The insidious influence of blockbuster cinema on videogames
Going big, going home.
Titanic explorer David Gallo sets his sights on videogames
Talking World of Tanks and ocean mysteries with titanicguy2010.
One way to get more new ideas in games: have teenage girls make them
Like popping bubble wrap. Popping bubble wrap is great.
The Destiny beta’s unacknowledged debt to the Space Race
Unearthing the space age rhetoric and iconography of Destiny.
The Sun Also Rises finds the human side of drone warfare
Hemingway’s epic gets an update for the War on Terror.
Five prose poems after Sid Meier’s Civilization
“The architects slept in his throne room, exhausted from their labours, sprawled on the tiger pelt and the undressed stone of his chair.”
I had a panic attack while playing The Walking Dead. Is this a good thing?
What games can help us overcome.
Of doom metal, women, and videogames
The walls came tumbling down.
The Wolf Among Us’s finale feels surprisingly real-life for a comicbook
Whose fantasy is this?
Super Mario Sunshine, Ecco the Dolphin, and the beaches of videogames
In videogames, life’s a beach until the enemies show up.
Mountain is a first step toward more human-centered game design
Easy to learn, easy to master.
Revisiting the gxTV, a "television for gamers" from 1997
In short, you haven’t played Wipeout until you’ve played it on the gxTV.
We’re moving toward a future of games-as-a-service
But what does that future look like?