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Dota 2 as religious experience
For spectators, The International 4 was sublime.
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You are the challenge in Crawl
But good luck figuring out what Crawl really is.
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Videogames think carnivals are Satan’s playground
Are they?
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Mini Metro turns the headache of mass transportation into fun
How two brothers gamified your commute.
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Daniel Benmergui on the troubles of telling all the world’s stories
The troubles and trials of telling every story ever.
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How does Wayward Manor fit into Neil Gaiman’s oeuvre? It doesn’t.
The wayward design of Wayward Manor.
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Play Along: The Essay and the Game
What videogames can learn from nonfiction, and vice versa.
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The insidious influence of blockbuster cinema on videogames
Going big, going home.
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Titanic explorer David Gallo sets his sights on videogames
Talking World of Tanks and ocean mysteries with titanicguy2010.
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One way to get more new ideas in games: have teenage girls make them
Like popping bubble wrap. Popping bubble wrap is great.
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The Destiny beta’s unacknowledged debt to the Space Race
Unearthing the space age rhetoric and iconography of Destiny.
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The Sun Also Rises finds the human side of drone warfare
Hemingway’s epic gets an update for the War on Terror.