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Nina Freeman’s next game is based on her mom’s 1960s childhood

03 Oct 2016 5 min read News

Game designer Nina Freeman first rose to prominence with How Do You Do It (2014), a game exploring precocious sexuality based on her own experiences as a child. The following year, her senior thesis project at NYU-Poly was commercially released as Cibele, a game about online gaming, sex, and falling

Announcing Play/Off, NYC’s first league of digital play

04 Sep 2015 1 min read Announcement

EDIT: Keep an eye out for Play/Off in 2016. We have decided to postpone it until then in order to do the best job possible on this event series. Games have been inherently social for most of our history, from basketball to chess. Why should videogames be any different? In our new event series, broug

Splendor exhibits all the challenges of going from tabletop to tablet

16 Jul 2015 4 min read Review

Does a great boardgame make a great videogame? Not necessarily.

It’s dangerous to go alone, so bring a friend to the beautiful world of Yonder

14 May 2015 2 min read News

With a few notable exceptions, platformers are typically solitary adventures that measure determination against dexterity. The life of a whip-wielding vampire slayer or bounty hunting contortionist is a lonely one. Players often left to fend for themselves as they chart a course through a labyrinthi

It’s hard not to love The Hole Story, a game made by teenage girls

17 Apr 2015 3 min read Article

From summer camp to game convention.