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Bonheur Suprême shot Homunculus, a documentary short, entirely inside Skyrim
Seventeen minutes of machinima about cruising as an "Arab" on gay dating apps—premiered at Visions du Réel, built from the mod community's tools.
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The videogame world of HBO’s Westworld
Based on the 1973 film by Michael Crichton of the same name, HBO’s Westworld has taken the original’s hackneyed premise of a couple tourists escaping from the Delos Corporation’s various time-focused theme parks (Medieval World, West World, and Roman World), and shifted it into a refined look at wha
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In defense of Bethesda’s notorious videogame glitches
Glitches and bugs have become the hallmark of Bethesda Softworks’ renowned 3D RPGs. Their releases are riddled with them: Fallout 3 (2008) regularly sent robots and Deathclaws flying through the air, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006) had an arrow duplication glitch that led to the greatest YouTu
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The Sims finally loosens up its gender restrictions
Prior to last week, characters in The Sims 4 (2014) were at a bit of a paradox. They could have any skin color the player wanted—including nonexistent ones—move and present themselves in a variety of cartoonish manners, have one of dozens of slightly different styles of eyebrows or chin lengths (yes
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Digitizing your ex: How men are using RPGs to cope with breakups
Videogames are a medium often used to escape the cruelties of reality, fostering a safe place for players to take a load off and step into a world that is familiar and comforting. Using a digital space to cope with complex situations or emotions isn’t a new concept, but it seems that some users are
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Fallout 4: Return to Junktown
For more in-depth game writing, back our Kickstarter! Here comes the trashman! He’s strutting down the highway in his scrap metal suit, tin cans rattling up and down its legs, soda bottles and glue dispensers falling out the cracks between its plates, cereal boxes bobbling on the tips of his metal f
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The return of Dishonored
The fiction and function of Arkane’s masterpiece.
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What Command & Conquer gets wrong about religion
How the venerable strategy series mutates real-world faiths.
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Shape of the World wants players to take the road less traveled
Don’t follow the yellow brick road.
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Skyrim mod turns its highly-detailed fantasy world into a cartoon
Skyrim, the fifth installation of the long-running Elder Scrolls series, is known among other things for its intensive, high quality graphics and level of visual detail. Even then, it’s common for players on PC to install several graphical enhancement mods for even more realistic lighting, water, an
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Dickens and the Impossible Romances of Video Games
The Witcher 3’s greatness has more to do with Leo Tolstoy than you’d expect.
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Dead End Thrills talks screenshots and art
A peek into the intersection of ownership, art, and the digital world.