The Gameological Society

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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 -

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  The Gameological Society Grand Theft Auto: Kirk Douglas and other bizarre hacks from Nairobi’s top game store

  Plus: The happiest freaking RoboCop game you've ever seen.

  February 5, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Commodore auteur Antony Crowther was “indie” before that was a thing

   We look back at the prolific PC developer's gameography. 

  February 4, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Violent games serve as a stand-in for childhood in a classic episode of The Simpsons

  Thrillhouse.

  February 3, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Tumblr’s games maven takes the Risk: Legacy plunge this weekend—what are your gaming plans?

  Aside from the Super Bowl/Puppy Bowl festivities, that is.

  January 31, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Your head, your head, your head is on fire: 12 inconvenient body mods in games 

  Lookin' good, lantern-nose.

  January 30, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society A lifelong Magic obsession amounts to depressingly little

  Turns out that cardboard picture of a squirrel was worth something someday—not much, but something.

  January 29, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Indiana Jones and Cold War paranoia collide in Call Of Duty’s Nuketown

  No fridge can save you from the nuclear blast that punctuates this ever-popular multiplayer level.

  January 28, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Ni No Kuni recaptures the warmth and magic of the best Studio Ghibli films

  Plus your sidekick has a lantern on his nose, which is convenient.

  January 27, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society The Star of “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury” tells us what she’s playing this weekend

  She's more of a Catchphrase type—you can keep your lousy Pictionary.

  January 24, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Gameological Q&A: Games you were willing to abandon

  Some games just aren't worth finishing.

  January 23, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society The creator of Shadowrun hopes to reboot his cyberpunk vision in a changed world

  Is Jordan Weisman the games world's George Lucas or Ridley Scott?

  January 22, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society The Devil May Cry reboot is a game of adolescence writ large

  It's your teenage years all over again. Except this time you're a demon hunter. And hot.

  January 22, 2013 | 11:59am -

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  The Gameological Society The South of Kentucky Route Zero is stranger and more honest than the South of Honey Boo Boo

  True-to-life? Not exactly. Truly weird? Definitely.

  January 21, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society The ending of Bastion shows why life has no “undo” command 

  "We have to go back!" Or do we?

  January 20, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Comedian Dan Wilbur shares his weekend playlist—tell us your plans in the comments

  The author of How Not To Read applies his literary theory to Dark Souls and Final Fantasy Tactics.

  January 17, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society That’s not how it happened: 15 video game futures that didn’t come true 

  Fiction can be stranger than truth.

  January 16, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society A game studio’s awful rotting-bikini-torso sculpture serves as accidental shock art

  A promotion for Dead Island: Riptide is a perfectly realized vision of game-industry ugliness.

  January 15, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Designer Charles Amis says games have entered the Uncanny Valley Of Choice 

  The designer of Artizens takes us on a tour.

  January 14, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society How games use robot sidekicks to make the future seem less lonely

  Rush in Mega Man 3 and Clank in Ratchet & Clank humanize their compatriots.

  January 13, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Tell us what you’re playing this weekend

  Shakespearean improviser Thomas Middleditch shares his weekend playlist and laments the overwhelming vastness of open-world games. 

  January 10, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society R.I.P. PlayStation 2: 2000-2012

  A eulogy for the PlayStation 2, the last of the single-purpose gizmos. 

  January 9, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society How Star Trek: The Next Generation’s frisbee-tuba orgasmo-tron exposes our fear of addiction

  Our series on game addiction in TV shows continues with a look at a strange episode of Trek.

  January 8, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society An ’80s adaptation of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde explored two sides of the same terrible coin

  Adapt And Die examines another ill-fated attempt to get rich quick off public domain source material.

  January 7, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society A brief history of the modern U.S. military, as told through strategy games

  Drew Toal matches commanders-in-chief with the '90s strategy games that speak their language.

  January 6, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Gameological Q&A: What are you playing this year?

  Gameological contributors make their New Year’s gaming resolutions.

  January 3, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Late to the Gameological party? Catch up with The Best Of Gameological 2012

  All our best stuff. Or at least some of the best. Don’t make us choose!

  January 2, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society The first level of Ninja Gaiden resolves to swear off excess—but resolutions are hard to keep

  In the 2004 reboot of its flagship series, Team Ninja created tension by shedding its boobs-and-blood excess—briefly. 

  January 1, 2013 | 11:59pm -

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  The Gameological Society Play a high-stakes presidential game of rock-paper-scissors in Super Debate 20XX 

  It’s rhetorical roshambo for the highest office in the land. An original game created for Gameological's Play The Year retrospective. 

  December 21, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  The Gameological Society Save a hapless replacement referee from himself in Pareffa The Ref

  You’re here on official business. That’s the problem. An original game created for Gameological's Play The Year retrospective.

  December 21, 2012 | 12:00am -