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Donald Trump’s board game contains everything there is to know about Donald Trump
Top Trump.
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Unmask corrupt Mexican politics with this surreal art installation
For some, it was only a matter of time before Mexico’s most infamous drug lord escaped. After being captured just last February, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman spent less than 18 months in police custody before it was discovered last weekend that he was no longer in his cell. Instead, prison security dis
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Videogames understand symbols, except when it comes to the Confederate flag
The Confederate flag: offensive symbol or just a distraction from the real debate?
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This story about gay marriage in a videogame shouldn’t be big news, but it is
This is going to be a short article because there aren’t two sides to tell. In Nintendo’s upcoming Fire Emblem Fates, it will be possible for your avatar to bond with an NPC of the same gender during a war and eventually get married. Polygon reports that relationships between men will require the pu
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Not a Hero makes confetti from the tatters of modern democracy
The pixels and chiptunes of Not a Hero mask a game of brutal cynicism.
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There’s no glory to be had in Not a Hero
Laughing in the face of politics.
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Riot – Civil Unrest, the videogame riot simulator, gets more relevant by the day
There are sad nights on Twitter, nights where one scene of senseless repression bleeds into the next. There have been plenty of these nights in recent years: Tahrir Square, London, Bahrain, Ferguson. Last night, it was Baltimore. Soon it will be somewhere else. For brief moments, the phenomenon of w
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See how games are taking on the world in the next episode of Let’s Play
“Change the Rules”
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The game design of monarchies
Gating and the eighteenth century court.
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Oddworld remains the cutest parable of proletariat uprising ever made
Viva la Mudoken revolution!
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Sunset arrives May 21, but you can play it before then at Two5Six
Come to our free arcade in Brooklyn to play Tale of Tales’ latest before its release.
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Why are teachers cheating the American school system? This videogame will explain
Don’t let those pineapples become kids!