Is modding a dying art?
We talk to Black Mesa dev Robert Yang about the future of the form.
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Babycastles and the hunt for new arcade spaces
Creating a more permanent place to play.
A new breed of music game is about creating, not performing
Parappa declined to comment.
Playlist 2/26: Oquonie reincarnates us, TxK modernizes, and Angvik hops about
We pick ’em, you play ’em.
The awfulness and the importance of the dress-up game
The least-discussed genre in videogames makes a comeback.
The fighting game finds new life through instant death
The death of the life bar, or the rebirth of the one-hit kill.
How do you make an RPG after Dark Souls?
In the wake of the Souls games, designers rethink a genre.
Kill Screen presents the Future of Genre series
Deconstruction and democratization, ahoy.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze returns the series to its 16-bit glory
Depending on your vision, of course.
Box Art Review: The Troubling Hypocrisy of Bioshock Infinite
A man has a gun and is angry.
DEIOS, glitches and the death of videogames
A theory of noise.
Playlist 2/20: Eliss Infinity spaces out, NaissanceE slowly unsettles, and OlliOlli gets us grinding again
Play ’em while they’re hot.
Why Titanfall’s colossal minimalism is enormously tiring
In defense of salivation.
How Tales of Game’s invented the massive Hoopz Barkley SaGa
Warning: This interview is canon.
How major videogames are slowly readying us for a gay protagonist
Hollywood did it.
Oniken blasts out of Brazil and the 90s
Making something new in the retro field.
How gaming glasses could turn the average Call of Duty player into a killing machine
Inside the future of cheating.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition crystallizes the original game’s flaws
Here comes a: new hat.
Garden Warfare aims to be the shooter for you and your 80-year-old grandma
An inside look at an FPS looking to do something different.
Gran Turismo as proof of The Singularity, and other things gleaned from KAZ
The pursuit of perfection.
Is World of Warcraft a religion? One anthropologist thinks so
Creating a sacred space, virtual or otherwise.
Thief returns, and brings with it a host of questions about the stealth genre
Dishonored and original Deus Ex creator Harvey Smith weighs in on the state of sneaking.
The dadification of videogames, round two
How have last year’s fathers fared?