The secret to social game success: sound
Dr. Karen Collins on gaming’s unheard triumphs.
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Box Art Review: the soulless redundancy of Watch Dogs
Check me off as “generic bad ass.”
Road to TWO5SIX: Steve Gaynor
The creator of last year’s watershed Gone Home discusses its wake.
The charming, melancholy Night in the Woods picks up where Gone Home left off
Saying goodbye to everything.
What does it mean to be an Irish character in a videogame?
And: how one sniper made an unexpected difference.
World of Tanks and the diplomatic impulse in videogames
What are we playing here?
Daylight turns the mundanity of procedural generation into terror
Round and round we go.
Road to Two5Six: Tarn and Zach Adams
The Dwarf Fortress devs have spent their lives making a game about life.
Funemployed! is the party game for millennials
Playable with bottles of water, presumably.
Watch Dogs is a miracle even if it sucks
Ubisoft unleashes something… big.
Jeffrey Yohalem on story versus game in Child of Light
Ubisoft’s small-team JRPG strives for cohesion.
Different Games Conference is the Diversity Lounge without the rest of PAX
And: when will “different games” just be games?
Flappy Bird and the rise of the accidental social game
How 2013’s surprise hit heralds a new type of success.
VR, the new arcade, and the presence-crisis of videogames
The most “immersive” game at PAX East was a 30-year-old sit-down tennis game.
Out of the Park 15 is the absurd game baseball deserves
Learning to love an unlovable game.
Nintendo becomes the poor man’s Girl Talk in NES Remix 2
Someone owes Diddy a royalty.
Will wearables overcome the hideous history of videogame peripherals?
From the Power Glove to the Oculus Rift, gaming wearables are defined by unwearableness.
Beyond Candy Crush Saga: the new wave of mobile videogames
Creating three seconds of perfection.
Is Nadia Was Here the most singleplayer game ever?
The surprising message of hope in a hopeless world.
Don’t give up on Nintendo’s weird, wonderful Miiverse
Or: How Nintendo learned to stop worrying and love the Internet.
How Heroes of the Storm began its life as a cooking game
Game director Dustin Browder recalls the the strange origins of Blizzard’s MOBA.
The Binding of Isaac: A Postmortem
With the upcoming release of Rebirth, a look back on Edmund McMillen’s Freudian nightmare.
The Doom that Came to Atlantic City updates Monopoly with harried results
Cthulhu destroys your nostalgia.
Nintendo Girls Club-a hub of fashion, cuteness, and mixed messages
Four women writers take on Nintendo’s strangest initiative ever.