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Although the trauma of congressional hearings in the 1990s and early 2000s over video games published by studios as…
Ten years ago, I wrote one of the most wrongheaded articles of my career. In a review of 2005’s Blitz: The League…
On the new episode of my podcast, Shall We Play a Game?, my co-host JJ Sutherland narrates a partial playthrough of S…
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It is one of the oft-old tales in the three-decade (!) history of Madden NFL: When Trip Hawkins, the founder of…
Here’s something I wish more game designers understood: If you put an interaction in your game, I am going to…
I just played the first 30 minutes or so of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and I’m hooked. I’m also…
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A little more than 10 years ago, not long after I quit my job to become a freelance writer, a colleague warned me…
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Sometimes I think a golden age of DLC was kicked off by The Ballad of Gay Tony for Grand Theft Auto IV. Minerva’s Den…
Are video games bad for you? Could they even kill you? That’s the kind of rhetoric we’re accustomed to hearing from…
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Thomas Was Alone, Mike Bithell’s charming 2010 platformer about the inner lives of hopping geometric shapes, was an…
A solitary, silent majority of teenage girls plays video games: often alone, rarely online. When teenage girls do…
As a good American I was filled with a jingoistic fervor after the triumph of the Evil Geniuses at The…
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The insult of “walking simulator,” lobbed at video games whose strongest elements are exploration, discovery, and…
I own a lot of books about video games. I paid almost $125 for a used copy of Invasion of the Space Invaders, Martin…
Tom Bissell is the author of my favorite book on video games, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, which I called “th…
The rewarding but occasionally unpleasant video game Beyond Eyes has one exceptional idea: You’re blind. Or you’re…
“It was the first time I had ever controlled anything on a video screen,” Ernest Cline, the author of Ready Player…
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I took our 5-year-old daughter to see Pixar’s Inside Out a week ago. I wish we had been able to play the new King’s…
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As you have likely heard, Pixels is a bad movie, almost pleasingly stupid. After watching it last night, I had more…