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Videogame based on Borges short story is in fact Borgesian
Solve the riddles of Borges’s A Garden of Forking Paths in this enigmatic videogame.
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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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Why a new edition of Dungeons and Dragons matters
The first step in evaluating a new era of roleplaying games.
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Get your weekend dose of history with a sharp list of gaming’s greatest forebears
Know your past!
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Valve is about to make Dota fun again
The orthodoxy revolts.
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Why we ignore gamers behind bars
A $5 zine reminds us we’re all becoming less humane.
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The secret history of the American boardgame
Or: why you hate Monopoly.
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Betrayer has survived the winter, leaves the battered settlement of Early Access in but one fortnight
With the continued popularity of games like DayZ and Rust making the survival genre officially a thing, it’s about time we’ve seen a full-blown New World settlement crossbow shooter. Betrayer: In The Spring of 1603 has actually been on Steam Early Access since August, starving through the winter but
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Ralph Baer recalls the creation of console gaming
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story…”
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Europa Universalis IV’s new DLC makes one of last year’s biggest, best games even bigger and better
The sublime, human beauty of maps and systems.
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Welcome to the redesigned Kill Screen Daily
A letter from the founder.
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How will historians study videogames?
A panel of smart people got together at NYU to discuss.