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The Gameological Society Author Adam Wilson on the “strategy” of NBA Jam and Streets Of Rage

Tell us your weekend gaming plans in the comments.

May 16, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Caught you red-handed: 9 games with creative copy protection

If you’re going to use DRM, you might as well have a sense of humor about it.

May 15, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society A brief history of hilariously unrealistic sports games

From Punch-Out!! to NFL Blitz, these are the sports games that made sports more fun.

May 14, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society The Dungeons & Dragons arcade games betray their namesake, and that’s okay

A lousy D&D adaptation can still be a great game.

May 13, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Disney decided who gets to make Star Wars games, and the Internet’s not going to like it—plus more game news in Gameological’s Bulletin

Plus: They're remaking <i>Wolfenstein</i> again.

May 13, 2013 | 12:30pm -
The Gameological Society How games like The Walking Dead make players more caring people

Pundits claim games destroy empathy, but often they do the opposite

May 12, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society For Mother’s Day, the Gameological moms talk about the games of their youth

A Gameological tradition continues.

May 9, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Gameological Q&A: What’s the best Mega Man level?

As Mega Man 2 Day kicks off, staffers make a case for the high points of the series.

May 8, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Turning your life into a game isn’t as awesome as it sounds

Steve Heisler tried to improve his productivity by turning work into a game. The results were less than ideal.

May 7, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Year Walk creator Simon Flesser on blurring the line between game and reality

In this creepy iPhone game, it can be awfully hard to tell.

May 6, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society A new Grand Theft Auto trailer exposes American hypocrisy, buttocks—plus more stories in Gameological’s Bulletin

Also: An extremely popular game will receive a sequel, and everybody gets sued.

May 6, 2013 | 12:30pm -
The Gameological Society A new Star Trek video game embraces the worst tendencies of J.J. Abrams

It's an empty vessel, captain.

May 5, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Some guys have poker night—author Ethan Rutherford has Contra night

The author of The Peripatetic Coffin fills us in on “Nofriendo Friday.”

May 2, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Come on in, the water’s fine: 9 underwater levels that aren’t awful

What does it take for an underwater level not to suck? Happy, rideable sea creatures, of course.

May 1, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Monaco reinvents the heist movie in Pac-Man terms

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and many heist films are constructed as elaborately staged morality plays that illustrate literal examples of this axiom.

April 30, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Double Dragon plus Grum’s Heartbeats equals one killer dancehouse beat-’em-up

Bad guys go on the run when ’80s revivalists join forces.

April 30, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon delivers a hugely entertaining payload of ’80s action schlock

Sgt. Rex “Power” Colt to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And he’s all outta gum.

April 30, 2013 | 11:00am -
The Gameological Society You can now order pizza on your Xbox—plus other, less important stories in Gameological’s Bulletin

Also: Microsoft pre-pre-announces the new Xbox, and Nintendo hemorrhages cash

April 29, 2013 | 12:30pm -
The Gameological Society How the Super NES classic Chrono Trigger mixes time travel with class warfare

We take a trip back to the prehistoric, aptly named kingdom of Zeal.

April 28, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Author Stephen Markley on Jenga as the perfect drinking game

Share your weekend gaming plans in the comments.

April 25, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Gameological Q&A: What’s your favorite glitch?

The Gameological staff shares its most memorable encounters with those rascally game bugs.

April 24, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society How many vice presidents does one evil overlord need? In Shining Force, way too many

Picking apart the org chart of doom.

April 23, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Starseed Pilgrim is like FarmVille but with epiphanies instead of potatoes

A strange game that's exciting because it's boring.

April 22, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Nintendo announces sequel to 22-year-old game it’s been remaking for 22 years—plus more in Gameological’s game news roundup

Also: Nintendo announces a bunch of other stuff, and the creator of Resident Evil returns with a new idea

April 22, 2013 | 1:15pm -
The Gameological Society Superman finally snaps in the fun DC Comics fighting game Injustice

Plus, Aquaman gets his due.

April 21, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Robot boxer Keisha Howard on leaving the only sport where decapitation is okay

Keisha Howard is ready to give up bots for BioShock.

April 18, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society What might have been: 9 games that were dramatically revamped in development

Making games is a messy business, but the mess can be fascinating.

April 17, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Anodyne is a winningly weird riff on the Zelda template

A game with a knack for catching players on the wrong foot.

April 17, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Mass Effect 3 gets yet another ending—the best one of all

BioWare pulls another coda out of its hat.

April 16, 2013 | 11:59pm -
The Gameological Society Is BioShock Infinite a moving personal story or an empty political statement?

Or both? Kotaku's Evan Narcisse joins us to debate.

April 15, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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