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Sometimes players want to do very specific, occasionally strange things in games—say, role-play as the chair Skyrim’s…

I recently played Dungeons & Dragons for the first time ever, and it sure was fun. We talk about that and much more…

Mike Nichols just wanted to make a talking banana. A self-described inventor of “useless” things, his original goal…

Video games’ version of paternalism is usually reductive: parents and children rarely stray from the roles of…

Quest 64 is the first game I ever watched someone speedrun. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing at the time. It…

Now that all the cards from Hearthstone’s Witchwood expansion have been revealed, most streamers and analysts are…

Ni no Kuni II is out today, and it’s easy enough that you probably won’t need much strategy to get through the…

It can be difficult, as a jaded adult, to appreciate a great fairy tale—one where the hero always wins and naivety…

As a competitive card game, Gwent has a community of players that’s both completely devoted and perpetually grumpy.…

Every fleet in EVE Online is only as good as the players leading it. But unlike real-life generals, the Fleet…