Nov 17 2015
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This has been a very good year for video games, but it has been an exceptional year for books about video…
Oct 30 2015
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Bob Whitaker, a historian of modern Britain at Louisiana Tech and the host of the YouTube series History Respawned,…
Oct 23 2015
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Where is a guy supposed to dump a body around here? Here is a three-minute video—taken from a late-game mission but…
Oct 16 2015
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People are interested in Introversion’s very good sim Prison Architect because it tries to model the complexities of…
Oct 2 2015
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This picture of a mouse might be the scariest thing I encountered in all of SOMA. Now that I’m not playing the game,…
Sep 25 2015
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“When it comes to probing questions about their intimate life as computer-game players, most people don’t have much…
Sep 16 2015
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Although the trauma of congressional hearings in the 1990s and early 2000s over video games published by studios as…
Sep 10 2015
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On the new episode of my podcast, Shall We Play a Game?, my co-host JJ Sutherland narrates a partial playthrough of S…
Sep 2 2015
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I just played the first 30 minutes or so of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and I’m hooked. I’m also…
Aug 27 2015
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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…
Aug 19 2015
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Are video games bad for you? Could they even kill you? That’s the kind of rhetoric we’re accustomed to hearing from…
Aug 13 2015
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As a good American I was filled with a jingoistic fervor after the triumph of the Evil Geniuses at The…
Aug 7 2015
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Tom Bissell is the author of my favorite book on video games, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, which I called “th…
Jul 30 2015
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“It was the first time I had ever controlled anything on a video screen,” Ernest Cline, the author of Ready Player…
Jul 22 2015
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On the most recent episode of Shall We Play a Game?, my podcast with former NPR producer and correspondent JJ…
Jul 14 2015
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On the most recent episode of Shall We Play a Game?, my podcast with former NPR producer and correspondent JJ…
Jul 10 2015
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On the most recent episode of Shall We Play a Game?, my podcast with former NPR producer and correspondent JJ…
Jul 3 2015
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On the most recent episode of Shall We Play a Game?, my podcast with former NPR producer and correspondent JJ…