The Gameological Society

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  The Gameological Society The Gameological staff offer up their weekend gaming plans—share yours in the comments

  The staff shares their weekend gaming plans; share yours in the comments!

  March 14, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Oof!: 13 great grunters in video games

  Who needs words?

  March 13, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society The co-creator of Dyad tells us why Super Mario Bros. is the only good game story ever

  “The realism of image and sound is not valuable.”

  March 12, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society In the new God Of War game, Kratos is like a boxer past his prime

  It might be time for the old guy to hang up the chain-blades of death.

  March 11, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society SimCity’s “love thy neighbor” premise might make for a repetitive urban landscape

  Are we all doomed to toil under the yoke of LlamaCorp?

  March 10, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Burning Love’s June Diane Raphael tells us what she’s playing this weekend—share your plans in the comments

  The star of Burning Love won’t let a busted printer stand in the way of her crossword puzzles.

  March 7, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Gameological Q&A: Worst puzzles ever

  What game design trope do you never want to see again?

  March 6, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society The Museum Of Modern Art collects three decades’ worth of game design in one place

  The startling breadth of a young art form.

  March 5, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society The new Lara Croft is great—the new Tomb Raider isn’t

  A smart reinvention of an iconic character is saddled with generic game design.

  March 4, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Kenji Eno, surrealist game designer, 1970-2013

  Dead at 42, the cult icon leaves behind a legacy of humor and compassion.

  March 3, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Author Justin Taylor tells us what he’s playing this weekend (Final Fantasy)—share your plans in the comments

  Taylor loves the gloomy World Of Ruin.

  February 28, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Limbo’s composer talks about making a footstep sound just right

  Martin Stig Anderson on making video game noise sound real 

  February 27, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society The New Sale Of The Century shows how not to remake a classic game show

  A new series on game show remakes kicks off with a look at a 2007 clunker.

  February 26, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society XCOM’s disposable heroes give it a strange intimacy

  As long as you name them after your friends and coworkers. 

  February 25, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Crysis 3 has a muddled hero but shines as a game of cat and mouse

  Play it with a friend or eight.

  February 24, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Gabe Serbian, drummer for The Locust, tells us what he’s playing this weekend

  Share your plans in the comments.

  February 21, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Sony’s PlayStation 4 “unveiling” is an evening of cognitive dissonance

  According to Sony, all the industry needs is more. Of everything.

  February 21, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  The Gameological Society Join us on a Skyrim bar crawl

  The best pubs, speakeasies, and other watering holes in all of Skyrim.

  February 19, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance can’t shake the series’ bad habits

  It's not so great on the spelling front, either.

  February 18, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society How Conker’s Bad Fur Day goes from poop humor to existential angst

  Not that those things are necessarily incompatible.

  February 17, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Sportswriter Will Leitch tells us what he’s playing this weekend—share your plans in the comments

  He just lets the computer do all the work.

  February 14, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society We drink in DmC: Devil May Cry’s virility—literally 

  It's a beverage, you see.

  February 14, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  The Gameological Society Thank you Mario! But our princess is codependent!: 15 dysfunctional relationships in games

  And you thought your love life was bad?

  February 13, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society The Cave can be a drag—we tell you how to make it more fun

  John Teti and Drew Toal try to squeeze some juice out of a hit-or-miss game.

  February 13, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  The Gameological Society The 3DS’ Wreck-It Ralph is a game about a film about a game. What could go wrong?

  Everything?

  February 12, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Is lousy pacing the downfall of Ni No Kuni?

  John Teti and Steve Heisler debate a Japanese role-playing game that starts slow but looks great.

  February 12, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  The Gameological Society Why more games should shut up already

  Yes, Mario, we know. It's a-you.

  February 11, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society In Dead Space 3’s petty love triangle, your Roomba is the only one you can trust

  A tale of love and rockets.

  February 10, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society A Conan producer tells us what he’s playing this weekend. What are your weekend gaming plans?

  The man behind the "Clueless Gamer" segments talks Far Cry 3 and playing the Wii on a moving bus.

  February 7, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Gameological Q&A: Games that felt tailor-made for you

  It's like they're inside your head.

  February 6, 2013 | 11:59pm -