The following editorial was written by a developer who has been testing and making games for five years. The…
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As a developer on Train Simulator 2014, I spend somewhere between 40 to 9,000 hours a week trying to solve one…
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It's not enough to have multiple endings in a video game to make it feel like a satisfying conclusion to the hours…
One piece of trivia orbits modern board gaming like a dark, sexy star. Someone who doesn't really play them will…
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War takes a terrible toll, not just in lives lost but in psyches shattered. Depression in the armed forces is…
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Dear Parents... We need to talk. There is something that has been eating at me for awhile, and I have had enough.
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It's a term you've probably heard passed around quite a bit. The "Citizen Kane" of video games. But what exactly…
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There’s been a lot of anger creeping into my corner of the internet: Anger about the unequal or insensitive…
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It's here! Like a murderous detective leaping from a Skyline, the Bioshock Infinite board game wants to come…
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I’ve grown up — rather fondly, I might add — with Pokémon. Over the years the several different hundreds of pocket…
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I can already predict the comments on this article. You will tell me I’m a horrible person. I’m a cancer on the…
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Video games today are no longer part of the entertainment industry. They’re a new industry, yet one as old as…
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There are many factors that have made me into the person I am today, as is the case with any person on this planet.…
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There was recently an article published on this very site, written by Nathan Peters. It was a description of his…
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