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Personal stories that celebrate gaming culture.

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What Would a New NCAA Football Game Look Like?

It’s not happening yet, but what if it did?

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The Controversial Zelda You May Have Missed

While Skyward Sword’s motion controls might be a little odd, you owe it to yourself not to miss this outstanding game

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From Revenge to Blood Feud

Examining why The Last of Us II is an uncomfortable story through a literary lens

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The Last of Us Part II, in Quotes

Famous thinkers like Confucius and Neitzsche put Naughty Dog’s controversial game in perspective

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Point/Counterpoint: The Last of Us Part II

An analysis of the key criticisms

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The Third Place: Bizarre Video Game Commercials

The games industry has often pushed the boundaries of television advertising

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Will We Ever Get Another NCAA Football Game?

A discussion on the complicated history (and future) of the franchise

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Rediscovering Retro Gaming

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

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Physical Vocabulary for Digital Worlds

Why the humble game controller is more powerful than you think

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The Joy of Short Games

Experiences that are fleeting but meaningful

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The Death of the Private Match

You were a star in the story, not just a cog in some calculated machine

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Breaking Games for Charity

Celebrating Games Done Quick and the speedrunning community

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Uniting Around Video Games

Celeste is the hardest game that everyone can play

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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