One-Thousand Cuts

In the mid-nineties, at the approach of the millennium, the creators of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest combined…

Far Cry 5 is a big game with lots to do. It’s more open than its predecessors, so at any moment, you have a lot of…

On a Sunday morning in September, Typhoon Talim was flooding the western part of Japan with a torrential downpour,…

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In 2012, as work on Mass Effect 3 came to a close, a small group of top BioWare employees huddled to talk about the…

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Since it came out 20 years ago, Super Mario 64 has been cracked open, turned inside-out, and put back together in…

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For the past five days, I’ve spent nearly as much time in virtual reality as real reality. My calves ache and my…