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What it feels like to play the Game of Thrones under a boot
Telltale continues to play it safe, and punishing.
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Memories of a Broken Dimension is here to destroy everything
XRA’s brutal, brutalist glitch experiment is more unsettling by the day.
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The glorious return of Xenoblade Chronicles, which is as good a JRPG as any
The re-rebirth of the game that will not die.
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A videogame too destructive to be shown in public
Is DonDonDonDon a video drinking game? Or a drinking videogame?
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A walk through a five-century-old-garden
Finding a path from Fallout’s wasteland to Versailles.
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The New Nintendo 3DS and the death of the screen
The final 3D videogame system is also the best.
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Off-Peak splits the difference between a videogame and a mood board
Where Coltrane and Rinse Dream collide.
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The rise of slow gaming, our cultural antidote to Angry Birds
Taking time to mull transforms how we play.
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A grown-ass man replays Final Fantasy VII
The greatest game ever made, and the problem of memory.
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The semiotics of controller design
Circle, Square, Triangle, and X.
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The impossible architecture of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Konami came close to making Piranesi’s imaginary prisons real.
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Tomb Raider and the riot-grrrl feminism of the ’90s
The conflicted birth and legacy of Lara Croft.