Presidential elections have a game design problem
How the Fox News debate is changing the political horse race.
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Get your summer reading on lock with the new videogame Storybundle
This is a very good deal.
In the Game of Thrones season finale, you either win, or you respawn
Spoiler warning for everyone who is not caught up on season five /// A few episodes ago, in yet another classic Stannis-Davos argument, the false king declared his strategic position—while also basically summing up the entirety of the Game of Thrones fiction: “We march to victory, or we march to def
The post-apocalyptic world will still be boring
The novel Slynx evokes the minutiae of survival, and points to a new path for games.
The game design of monarchies
Gating and the eighteenth century court.
Deskjob knows you die a little inside with every day you go to work
You know the job you hate? Well, it’s a videogame now.
The makers of Super Mario RPG and No More Heroes are making a tiny mobile game
They’re taking inspiration from Fez and Gone Home.
Go on a game-making roadtrip with Major Bueno
Finally, the Major Bueno duo are at it again with their most ambitious game-making challenge yet.
Comic Sans is dead; long live these new, game-inspired fonts
Read up on it.
An exclusive excerpt of The Art of Game Design
The game begins with an idea.
Want to learn about game design? Go to IKEA
We promise: the Swedish furniture giants are masters of smart play.
Jonathan Blow "names" next title "Game 3," may take 20 years to create
“Be like Gravity’s Rainbow,” Blow says.
A conversation with Jesse Schell, author of The Art of Game Design
Or: What does Disneyland have to do with The Last of Us?
"Work is essential. The Rifle is Near": Metroidvania and the Call of Pervasive Work
How a couple of classics outline the hard work of play.
Mountain is a first step toward more human-centered game design
Easy to learn, easy to master.
Shovel Knight may be retro, but it’s forward-thinking
The lures and limits of nostalgia.
Bound by Flame: a game that doesn’t exist
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Monopoly should be less bad now that it’s crowdsourcing a new rulebook
Monopoly is, factually speaking, a bad game. But now the boardgame about greedy banking is trying to set things right after all those yawn-inducing living room snooze-fests, which doubtlessly soured millions of Americans to the pastime of boardgaming before they reached the age of consent. Hasbro, t
Can the beautiful, beleaguered isometric perspective make a comeback?
Inside Xenonauts, the combat sim that hopes to try.
Javel-ein gives you one spear and one chance
What a cruel lover you are, Javel-ein.
Bobsledding is officially the worst Olympic sport, because math
We don’t often analyze the design of sports as closely as other types of games, but taking a closer look at some of the games at the Olympics suggests that maybe we should. Ben Blatt over at Slate looked at the statistics for Bobsledding kept by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation ba