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Who is Andrew W. K., and why have we convinced ourselves to chase a mystery? Drew Millard argues our self-deception may be our best way to stay engaged today.

In common parlance, tastes change. But this is no mere truism; when technology moves with the times, so does what we find palatable. We look at the history of videogames through the surprisingly familiar lens of food.

The simplest videogames today excel at one thing: the chase that we pursue endlessly and never finish. Yannick LeJacq looks at mobile hits Canabalt and Temple Run through the health and fitness lens.

Game designers around the world recently gathered to make Peter Molyneux’s unconscious fever dreams—the Twitter account of @petermolydeux—a reality. What we learned was that good jokes are not the same as good ideas.

How can bad games accomplish more than good ones? On the awe-inspiring results of Cheetahman II and awfulness.