How Runemaster aims to turn Swedish folklore into the most emergent RPG ever
“We are going to have make a shit-ton of content.”
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Leading developers tell us how they would turn Apple’s Touch ID into play
Prototypes from the creators of 868-HACK, Type: Rider, and Hiversaires.
Pop music and the evolution of dance games
Shake it, don’t break it.
How the upcoming Thralled could help us better understand the atrocity of slavery
Love speaks louder than violence.
How Apotheon turned Greek pottery into a stunning new RPG
Mount Olympus, Hades’ Underworld, and everything in between.
Why I quit playing Baldur’s Gate 2: A Confession
What century is this from, anyway?
Viscera Cleanup Detail is what would happen if Charlie Kaufman made a shooter
Sans Jon Brion strings.
The steam-pumping unnecessity of Windforge
Here comes the Fail Whale.
Don’t look for order in the horror of Knock-Knock
It will kill you.
How M. C. Escher’s "little worlds" inspired the gorgeous upcoming Monument Valley
Not to mention Sonic the Hedgehog, Fez, Diablo II…
For Gonzalo Frasca, game studies means game production
Making and doing, in all its forms.
Yoshi’s New Island is a lesson in parenthood
It takes a village.
How Bounden will teach you ballet and help you hook up
Rethinking the dance game.
Revisiting Yoshi’s Island, Nintendo’s leftfield masterpiece
The ultimate escort mission gets its due.
Katamari Damacy and the return of "play" in videogames
Miguel Sicart yearns for a bygone era.
Box Art Review: The sultry noir of Max Payne 2
“For this to work, I was going to have to trust her.”
Label Gear Solid turns the stealth game into a lesson on queer identity
One wonders how Snake would fare.
Nazis I killed in Wolfenstein: The New Order
In chronological order.
Videogames and the aesthetic of ruins
Why are we obsessed with broken worlds?
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is a fitting finale for gaming’s greatest puzzle-solver
A perfect gentleman to the last
Unraveling the cult of Twitch Plays Pokemon
Praise the Almighty Helix.
"A Rape in Cyberspace" gets remade for the IRL era
Julian Dibbell’s cyberspace classic is just as relevant as it was twenty years ago.
The tortured, hateful parentage of South Park: The Stick of Truth
I learned something today: I hate South Park.
The Wolf Among Us falters in episode two
Smoke and mirrors is right.
Strider is a lesson in videogame austerity
Hot butter say what the sword charge.