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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.”
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Road to TWO5SIX: Steve Gaynor
The creator of last year’s watershed Gone Home discusses its wake.
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The charming, melancholy Night in the Woods picks up where Gone Home left off
Saying goodbye to everything.
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What does it mean to be an Irish character in a videogame?
And: how one sniper made an unexpected difference.
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World of Tanks and the diplomatic impulse in videogames
What are we playing here?
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Daylight turns the mundanity of procedural generation into terror
Round and round we go.
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Road to Two5Six: Tarn and Zach Adams
The Dwarf Fortress devs have spent their lives making a game about life.
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Funemployed! is the party game for millennials
Playable with bottles of water, presumably.
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Watch Dogs is a miracle even if it sucks
Ubisoft unleashes something… big.
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Jeffrey Yohalem on story versus game in Child of Light
Ubisoft’s small-team JRPG strives for cohesion.
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Different Games Conference is the Diversity Lounge without the rest of PAX
And: when will “different games” just be games?