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New PBS Game/Show peeks into the beautiful and terrible future of games

If the past has taught us anything, it’s that the future will be full of awesome videogames the likes of which we can only begin to imagine. But that’s not going to stop us from imagining, nonetheless. In fact, if you look around today’s environment, we can already sense some huge upcoming trends on

New PBS Game/Show asks if JRPGs necessarily have to be Japanese

With a name like Japanese role-playing games, you’d think the genre would be geographically bound to the land of soba noodles and adorable lucky cat shrines. But recently there have been a slew of games that play more or less exactly like JRPGs, but with one major difference: they’re not made in Jap

New PBS Game/Show asks what your favorite game genre says about you

Say you gravitate to surreal exploratory adventures, but avoid survivor horror games like the plague. The tactical wargame is your jam, but JRPGs are not your cup of tea. Do the types of fun we enjoy tell us a deeper truth about our meat space selves, aside from that we should never ever attempt han

New PBS Game/Show appraises the worst games of all time

It’s been said that badness is only spoiled goodness, but obviously whoever said that had never played a truly bad videogame. Case in point: there is nothing even remotely redeemable about the majority of the games in this week’s PBS Game/Show’s episode. Well, except that it’s pretty funny when Jami