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Personal stories that celebrate gaming culture.

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Diminishing Halo's Mythology

The desire to explain too much can vanquish the awe and wonder we once felt

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Courageous Game Design

Examining courage in one of gaming’s greatest stories

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Pay to Win Makes Some More Equal Than Others

The true technological terror of microtransactions

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Video Games Have Become the Soundtracks to Our Lives

Digital experiences can leave indelible marks on the story of the self

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Will Unreal Engine 5 Turn the Tables on Next-Gen?

Breaking down Epic Games’ vision of the future

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Breath of the Wild is a Meditation on Childhood

Personal, fleeting, magical

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The Dystopia for Our Times

NieR: Automata’s opening hours are an eerie parallel to our post-virus world

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Castlevania Redux

How the Nintendo Switch resurrected my love affair with the classic game

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Tomorrow is Here

Reflecting on Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima’s perspective on a society of isolated people, and why human connection matters

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Final Fantasy's Green New Deal

FFVII Remake casts a complex shadow over environmental justice

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Video Games Made Me Travel

Three games that made me want to travel (and the one that got me on the plane)

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Games to Lift Your Spirits

Some games possess unique qualities that may offer relief during this period of heightened anxiety

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Building the Nintendo Switch Pro

Exploring the possibilities of a next-generation Switch console

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Playing By Ear

The real MVP in 2019’s video games? The music.

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Tear Down That Fourth Wall

Death Stranding kicks off a timely and important conversation with its players

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Forza Horizon is Food for the Car Enthusiast Soul

It also feels like an increasingly rare experience in driving games

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Saving Mortal Kombat

How Mortal Kombat 11 rekindled my love for the franchise

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Is the 3DS Still Relevant?

And is it too late to dive in now?

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Discovering EarthBound 23 Years Late

This SNES classic is still great for franchise newcomers

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From Lego to Labo: The Journey as a Goal

Tactile build-and-play experiences offer relief in an all-digital world

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Revisiting Ratchet & Clank

Remakes can be a good way to enjoy games you missed

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Designing the N64 Classic Mini

What could Nintendo’s ideal micro console look like?

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Peak Horror

The most frightening video game ever is as elusive as it is horrific

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Rediscovering Retro

The pleasure and pitfalls of a gamer’s mid-life crisis

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The Tale of a Late Adopter

Picking up an Xbox One three years after launch