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There is one problem with every wrestling game ever made
Wrestling is fake. Its games aren’t fake enough.
Sports
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The human cost of Baku 2015, conceptualized as the most futile videogame ever
A game of human rights violations.
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Turns out that playing real-life soccer as you would a videogame leads to hilarity
Soccer is a popular sport—by some measures, the World Cup is the most watched sporting event in the world. Soccer videogames, particularly the FIFA franchise, are also quite popular. In all likelihood, the Venn diagram for fans of the sport and fans of the videogame resembles a circle more closely t
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The School: an essay concerning Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
“We got this new game,” he said in biology class, “where you just get to wander around and skate.”
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A hockey fan taught his living room to celebrate goals with a light show
The Montreal Canadiens’ season is over. Last night, following a 4—1 loss at the hands and sticks of the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Habs were eliminated from the National Hockey League’s playoffs. Their barren run of seasons without bringing home the Stanley Cup now sits at twenty two. Viewed in the li
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They still don’t get paid, but student quarterbacks are now trained in virtual reality
It’s NFL draft season again, that magical time of year wherein prognosticators discuss the concussion-riddled future of young athletes for hours on end. One of the questions that invariably comes up during these interminable discussions is whether an athlete can “read the field” when he moves up fro
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Baseball is back, and so is the most meditative series in sports videogames
MLB 15: The Show captures the lyricism of baseball.
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Ping-Pong Go Round brings sport to the conference table
A new Ping-pong table design is one of many ways Forrest Gump could have been improved.
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Watching sports from a more videogame-like perspective could reinvent them
In praise of the first-person view.
Review
WWE 2K15 reveals the grueling life of a superstar
A harsh reality.
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How four art kids from Melbourne created a bizarre new sport
Push Me Pull You came by its weirdness honestly.
Review
NBA2K15 is both a marvelous basketball videogame and a douchebag simulator
The RPG and basketball genres come together.