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Game Type: Capture the School
When the power cut the Halo match short, eight teenagers carried its rules across the road and turned their empty high school into the map.
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The Art of Escape
This article was funded with support from Longreads members. * * * No one wore stripes that spring and summer in Leavenworth. Stripes were for rule breakers, and no one was breaking the rules. “Baseball As A Corrective” read the front page of the New York Times that May. It was 1912 and “the magic o
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How to talk about videogames (if you’re blind)
One of the first things that people notice when they flip on their consoles are the catchy intro sequences; the flashy animations of the screen. Videogames have a quantified area around them that’s visual. After all, so many game elements are conveyed through visual means, such as objective markers
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Tinder matchmaking is more like Warcraft than you might think
“Don’t hate the player, hate the game,” says the pick-up artist. “I’ve just got more game than you,” says your roommate who wears too much cologne. Comparisons between dating and gaming are commonplace in our web-obsessed culture, and thanks to a recent profile on Tinder from Fast Company, it turns
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The push to make Halo 5 the next big eSport
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. For an entire generation of players, there is nothing sweeter than scoring the winning kill in a Halo death-match and leading your team to victory. With the first-ever Halo World Championship, Microsoft is making a concentrated effort to get
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Halo 5: A cooperative review
On Halo 5, and the triumph of gunfeel (patent pending).
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Halo 5’s Warzone mode is a glorious clusterf*ck
Never change, Halo 5’s absolutely bonkers Warzone mode
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Sun Dogs uses text to interrogate our solar system
The space-opera scale of Mass Effect, now in text adventure form.
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Old people rejoice: Halo is slow again
Halo 5‘s arena mode is straight outta 2007.
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Forget space marines. Let me play as the janitor
Stop worrying about saving the universe and just live in it.
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Halo & a deference to scripture
Excited for Halo 5? Crack open a Bible to get ready.
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An eating disorder support group gives women in games more "realistic" body shapes
It’s no secret that media’s treatment of female bodies is all around terrible. But for videogames and other animated media, the idealizing of women’s bodies presents some uniquely awkward issues (have you seen the breast physics?) For example: according to the 2013 Game Developer Magazine survey, on