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Remembering the obscure PlayStation game that just wanted you to play
Where most games encourage play with open worlds, Boku no Natsuyasumi promotes it through careful structure.
Humor
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Sesame Street knows the way to a kid’s brain is through their funny bone
Educating children with a smile.
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How memes emerge from games
The fertile shared space between humor and play.
News
A game about American railway bridges collapsing isn’t as absurd as it seems
There’s a moment in every child’s life, when posing as an amateur builder, when they realize a simple but fundamental principle of design: things work better when you stagger them. In bricklaying, Lego or otherwise, the staggering of joints is called a running bond. In Mark Ellis: Train Bridge Inspe
Interview
"I think Final Fantasy VII will last forever."
A conversation with the creator of @ffvii_blazed.
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The year games got funny again
Goats, microtransactions, anal probes, pizza: 2014 saw a new form of comedy emerge.
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Get intimate with Barfcade Jam’s romantic puking games
There’s nothing more romantic than puking together.
Article
Remember Nintendo’s 90s comic about a psychotic loner driven to murder by a Game Boy?
Us neither.
Feature
Speaking to inanimate objects in Divinity: Original Sin
An erroneous comedy.
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Double Hitler is Octodad for Nazis
As hilarious as that might be!
News
Watch Tim Schafer get wistful about one of his nearest dearest projects
This mini-documentary of a raspy Tim Schafer talking tenderly about Grim Fandango is just great. It has everything a fan of that classic, soon-to-be-revived, adventure game featuring martini-sipping skull-faced rakes could want. There’s 15 minutes of old photos of the gang at LucasArts; props and de
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‘Metal Gear Solid 5’ to be funny again after the ultra-grim ‘Ground Zeroes,’ Kojima says
If you were concerned after playing the bleak, grizzled Ground Zeroes prequel that Metal Gear had lost all its quirky weirdness, you had good reason. Our writer Filipe Salgado did an admirable job broaching the issue in his review. But don’t be. According to a recent interview with creator Hideo Ko