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Sun Dogs uses text to interrogate our solar system
The space-opera scale of Mass Effect, now in text adventure form.
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One of the best horror movies of the millennium is a YouTube compilation of Silent Hill 2’s cutscenes
In my restless dreams, I see that YouTube compilation…
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The unified theory of all zombie fiction
The core of all zombie fiction isn’t brains. It’s heart
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We Need to Stop Letting Everyone Save the World
Did you beat Life is Strange? Let’s have a chat, then.
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Transformers: Devastation is a Platinum-strength exercise in nostalgia
Look back in anger.
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Why are we so afraid to walk?
A budding movement in games takes its first steps.
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The Rise of Dating Sims for Women
A traditionally Japanese genre is learning how to spread its wings in the west.
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Revisiting the original, quietly revolutionary Assassin’s Creed
The original Assassin’s Creed had a radical agenda that later games forgot.
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Science says your gaming experiences may be shams
In case you weren’t already convinced that games are total bullshit, here’s a study in the New Scientist that claims the placebo effect—that noted scourge of hypochondriacs and homeopaths—also works in videogames. Ok, not everything is bullshit, but at least some of it is. The study at hand, which
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Behind the humor of Toby Fox’s Undertale
The sly, Lynchian humor of this year’s subversive RPG hit.
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The Reality Hunger of Davey Wreden
How The Beginner’s Guide expands the lexicon of games.
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A note about our reviews policy
In defense of scores.