"Work is essential. The Rifle is Near": Metroidvania and the Call of Pervasive Work
How a couple of classics outline the hard work of play.
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Mountain is a first step toward more human-centered game design
Easy to learn, easy to master.
Shovel Knight may be retro, but it’s forward-thinking
The lures and limits of nostalgia.
Bound by Flame: a game that doesn’t exist
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Monopoly should be less bad now that it’s crowdsourcing a new rulebook
Monopoly is, factually speaking, a bad game. But now the boardgame about greedy banking is trying to set things right after all those yawn-inducing living room snooze-fests, which doubtlessly soured millions of Americans to the pastime of boardgaming before they reached the age of consent. Hasbro, t