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Shape of the World Is a Beautiful, Lifeless Void
By Cameron Kunzelman July 11, 2018 | 12:30pm
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Concluse Illustrates The Chilling Effectiveness of Retrograde Horror
By Holly Green July 10, 2018 | 12:30pm
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Here's Video of Me Awkwardly Hanging Out at Toy Story Land
By Garrett Martin July 9, 2018 | 4:30pm
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Overwatch's Newest Hero Shows Blizzard at Its Most Cringeworthy
By Dante Douglas July 9, 2018 | 12:00pm
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ArenaNet Fires Two Guild Wars 2 Writers Over Tweets, Sending a Bad Message to Designers and Consumers
By Garrett Martin July 6, 2018 | 5:45pm
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Should I Eat This Cuphead Cereal or Should I Just Lay Down and Die
By Holly Green July 6, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Rage
2 is on the way, but the original is worth revisiting
By Matt Gerardi July 6, 2018 | 5:00am
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Wacky cartoon pool,
a beautiful throwback RPG, and more games to play in July
By Matt Gerardi July 3, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Sorry, Division 2: No Matter What Your Designers Say, You're Still a Political Game
By Dante Douglas July 3, 2018 | 11:02am
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Toy Story Land Brings New Life to Disney's Hollywood Studios
By Garrett Martin July 2, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Cyberpunk 2077's Politics Should Be as Powerful as Its Aesthetics
By Dante Douglas June 30, 2018 | 3:08pm
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Watch Us Ride the Slinky Dog Dash Roller Coaster at Disney's Toy Story Land
By Garrett Martin June 29, 2018 | 9:30am
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With Jurassic World Revealed, Amazon shows voice games for Alexa are no joke
By Alex McLevy and Matt Gerardi, Matt Gerardi June 29, 2018 | 5:00am
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Steam
sale deep cuts: 20 under-the-radar games under $5
By The A.V. Club, William Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Clayton Purdom June 28, 2018 | 6:00pm
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The Church in the Darkness: Building a Believable Cult
By Brock Wilbur June 28, 2018 | 10:30am
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Finding the Right Work-Life Balance with Moonlighter
By Shonte Daniels June 27, 2018 | 10:30am
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Detroit,
Westworld, and moving androids beyond human
By Reid McCarter June 26, 2018 | 4:45pm
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The A.V. Club’s favorite games of 2018 so far
By The A.V. Club, Sam Barsanti, Nick Wanserski, Patrick Lee, Anthony John Agnello, Clayton Purdom, William Hughes June 26, 2018 | 11:00am
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The Rise of the Destiny-likes
By Dante Douglas June 25, 2018 | 11:00am
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Voyageur and the Human Power of Sci-Fi
By Shonte Daniels June 22, 2018 | 11:15am
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In
Quarantine Circular, the fate of humanity rests on your
conversation with an alien
By Matt Gerardi June 22, 2018 | 5:00am
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Graveyard Keeper Is Better Than Stardew Valley
By Holly Green June 21, 2018 | 12:08pm
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The 15 best video game trailers of E3 2018
By Matt Gerardi June 19, 2018 | 5:51pm
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Why I Stopped Caring about Telltale's The Walking Dead
By Cameron Kunzelman June 19, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Prey: Mooncrash makes a stressful new nightmare out of one of 2017’s best games
By Matt Gerardi and William Hughes, William Hughes June 15, 2018 | 5:00am
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How Ghost of Tsushima Hopes to Remain Faithful to Japanese Culture
By Garrett Martin June 14, 2018 | 8:30pm
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The Xbox Adaptive Controller Might Improve Your Quality of Life
By Holly Green June 14, 2018 | 3:10pm
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What Does The Last of Us Part 2's Trailer Mean for Queer Representation in Games?
By Holly Green June 13, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Migos Work Hard and Only Play EA, Apparently
By Jamie Loftus June 13, 2018 | 10:00am
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Paste Is at E3 Again, for Some Reason
By Garrett Martin June 12, 2018 | 3:47pm
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The Narrative Contradictions of Vampyr Spoil An Otherwise Good Game
By Dante Douglas June 8, 2018 | 10:00am
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Onrush is a chaotic, high-speed racing game that isn’t a racing game at all
By Matt Gerardi June 8, 2018 | 5:00am
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Fallout’s best vault elected to tell the series’ darkest story
By William Hughes June 7, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Valve Ignores Its Responsibility with Its New Steam Content Policy
By Garrett Martin June 6, 2018 | 5:30pm
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The deliciously nasty Vampyr feels like a game from another era
By Clayton Purdom June 4, 2018 | 10:00pm
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A Hands-on Look at Crusader Kings and Paradox's Other Upcoming Board Games
By Keith Law June 4, 2018 | 1:30pm
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Fallout 76: Everything We Know About the New Vault (and How I Feel About It)
By Holly Green June 1, 2018 | 3:30pm
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Battlebond Is Magic for Two, with Fascinating Results
By Cameron Kunzelman June 1, 2018 | 11:30am
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Ikaruga
on the Switch is a perfect
introduction to the beauty of bullet-hell games
By Matt Gerardi, Clayton Purdom June 1, 2018 | 5:00am
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PUBG Vs. Fortnite: The Growing Pains of a New Genre
By Dante Douglas May 31, 2018 | 11:30am
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Quarantine Circular Is a Great Example of Blended Genres
By Shonte Daniels May 30, 2018 | 12:35pm
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Mario
Tennis, a Jurassic Park builder, and more games to play in June
By The A.V. Club, Clayton Purdom, Sam Barsanti, William Hughes May 29, 2018 | 11:00am
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Steam's Confusing Policies Are Bad for the Game Development Community
By Dante Douglas May 25, 2018 | 2:29pm
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Getting
back into Dark Souls is just like riding a bike
By Matt Gerardi May 25, 2018 | 5:00am
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The Culture Wars Churn On with Fake Outrage Over Battlefield V
By Garrett Martin May 24, 2018 | 2:05pm
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Boots on the Ground: Paste Goes to the Black Ops IIII Press Event
By Cameron Kunzelman May 23, 2018 | 1:45pm
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A Way Out saved its best idea for the last 20 minutes
By William Hughes May 22, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Bombslinger Proves That Procedural Generation Isn't Right for Every Genre
By Garrett Martin May 21, 2018 | 3:39pm
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Dungeons & Dragons Digs Deep Into Gods and Demons With Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
By Cameron Kunzelman May 21, 2018 | 11:30am
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Frostpunk Is a Refreshingly Honest, Boldly Fascist Look at Steampunk's Victorian Roots
By Dante Douglas May 18, 2018 | 11:30am
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Rolling through a more
artful post-apocalypse in Far: Lone Sails
By Matt Gerardi and Clayton Purdom, Clayton Purdom May 18, 2018 | 5:00am
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God of War Is a Great Reminder That Most of Our Dads Suck
By Holly Green May 17, 2018 | 3:00pm
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God
Of War’s ending leaves plenty of clues about where the series is
headed next
By Matt Gerardi May 15, 2018 | 5:00pm
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How The Organizers of Wicomicon and Famcon Turned Bad News into Stone Soup
By Shonte Daniels May 15, 2018 | 12:07pm
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Any Credibility Daybreak Games Had is Gone Now, No Matter Who Actually Owns Them (Updated)
By Brian Bell May 11, 2018 | 3:39pm
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Blurry PlayStation graphics make for seriously surreal horror in Paratopic
By Matt Gerardi, Clayton Purdom May 11, 2018 | 5:00am
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I Spent a Few Hours with Oculus Go. Here Are My Thoughts.
By Holly Green May 10, 2018 | 1:04pm
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On the Quiet, Effortless Diversity of Battletech
By Dante Douglas May 9, 2018 | 10:30am
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Smacking a YouTuber
with their own selfie stick is a new peak for video game catharsis
By Matt Gerardi May 8, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Is There Life After Early Access? Revisiting The Forest
By Holly Green May 8, 2018 | 1:30pm
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The Overwatch League Won’t Successfully Emulate Traditional Sports Leagues Until It Evolves Like Them
By Brian Bell May 7, 2018 | 10:30am
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I Just Can't with the Climbing on Rails in God of War Anymore
By Holly Green May 4, 2018 | 1:30pm
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Frostpunk Doesn't Ignore the Human Connection
By Cameron Kunzelman May 4, 2018 | 10:30am
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The
podracing video game holds up way better than Star
Wars’ actual podrace
By Matt Gerardi and Clayton Purdom, Clayton Purdom May 4, 2018 | 5:00am
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The Nintendo Labo Piano Is a Surprisingly Useful Little Synthesizer
By Garrett Martin May 3, 2018 | 3:30pm
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The New Battlegrounds Map Feels Too Much Like Fortnite
By Dante Douglas May 3, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Spelunky mashed up two wildly different genres—and invented a perfect game
By Clayton Purdom May 2, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Take a Behind-the-Scenes Look Into the Score for Dontnod's Vampyr
By Garrett Martin May 2, 2018 | 3:00pm
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God Of War is a great game about terrible dads
By Clayton Purdom May 1, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Android panic in Detroit: 8 new games to play in May, plus a bunch of old ones
By A.V. Club, William Hughes, Clayton Purdom, Sam Barsanti April 30, 2018 | 1:00pm
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The Swords of Ditto Lets Anyone Be a Hero
By Shonte Daniels April 30, 2018 | 12:00pm
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The Influence of Dark Souls on Avengers: Infinity War Is Hard To Ignore
By Brock Wilbur April 27, 2018 | 2:30pm
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The Quick Time Events in God of War Have Got to Go
By Holly Green April 27, 2018 | 10:15am
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The
Swords Of Ditto reimagines
classic
Zelda
with Cartoon Network cuteness
By Matt Gerardi and Sam Barsanti, Sam Barsanti April 27, 2018 | 5:00am
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Yes, There's a Secret Ending to God of War, and Here's How to See It
By Garrett Martin April 26, 2018 | 11:00am
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God Of War declares
its cinematic ambitions with an incredible super-powered fistfight
By Matt Gerardi April 25, 2018 | 6:15pm
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Death Isn't an Enemy in Minit
By Dante Douglas April 25, 2018 | 12:29pm
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The Valkyrie Fights Are the Best Part of God of War
By Garrett Martin April 24, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Far Cry 5 Offers No Insight into Christian Fundamentalism
By Holly Green April 23, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Bless the Xbox One for keeping turn-of-the-millennium weirdness alive
By Matt Gerardi April 20, 2018 | 5:00am
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How God of War Got Me To Finally Start Blocking
By Holly Green April 19, 2018 | 2:30pm
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Overwatch Retribution Isn't Enough to Solve the Game's Narrative Problems
By Dante Douglas April 18, 2018 | 2:30pm
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Travel Is Freedom in Games and Life
By Shonte Daniels April 17, 2018 | 1:00pm
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A Well-Oiled Machine of Death: Rogue Aces and the Futility of War
By Garrett Martin April 16, 2018 | 6:03pm
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Florence Is a Beautiful Reminder That It's Okay to Move On
By Holly Green April 16, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Magic Goes Digital with Magic: The Gathering Arena
By Cameron Kunzelman April 13, 2018 | 1:00pm
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It’s
time to get ready for Yakuza 6, next week’s other big game about a
badass dad
By Matt Gerardi April 13, 2018 | 5:00am
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The Indie Games Market Is in Trouble
By Dante Douglas April 12, 2018 | 1:45pm
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Far Cry 5’s nihilistic ending tries to take the rest of the game down with it
By William Hughes April 11, 2018 | 4:00pm
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What Bully Hunters Gets Wrong About Harassment in Games
By Holly Green April 11, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Far Cry 5 Doesn't Understand The Country Life
By Holly Green April 9, 2018 | 2:00pm
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You only have 60 seconds to live in Minit’s ingenious adventure
By Matt Gerardi, William Hughes April 6, 2018 | 5:00am
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Ni
No Kuni 2’s final hours bring a conventional ending to an unconventional RPG
By Matt Gerardi April 5, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Game Critics Need to Review Games Holistically
By Dante Douglas April 5, 2018 | 4:30pm
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Games Need To Stop Using Drugs as a Narrative Shortcut
By Holly Green April 4, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Far Cry 5's lackluster second act gets too high on its own supply
By William Hughes April 3, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Kratos’ comeback,
Nintendo’s cardboard craze, and 5 more games to play in April
By Matt Gerardi April 1, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Corrupt
leaders get what’s coming to them in Ni No Kuni 2’s precious fantasy world
By Matt Gerardi March 30, 2018 | 6:00pm
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The State of the Union: GDC, Jen MacLean, and Game Workers Unite
By Holly Green March 30, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Arms and the Hidden Power of Story in Competitive Games
By Shonte Daniels March 30, 2018 | 1:15pm
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Yep,
Dragon
Ball FighterZ
is still a
freakin’ blast
By Matt Gerardi, Clayton Purdom March 30, 2018 | 5:00am
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Not even the trailer for Jurassic World Evolution can build a dinosaur park that doesn't fail
By Sam Barsanti March 29, 2018 | 7:46pm
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Sailing the Sea Of Thieves without a crew is lonely and strange
By Sam Barsanti March 29, 2018 | 4:45pm
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Wolfenstein II and Violence in Games: An Interview with Creative Director Jens Matthies
By Holly Green March 28, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Sea of Thieves Tips: Pillage and Plunder Like a Pro
By Andy Moore March 28, 2018 | 12:00pm
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GDC Is No Longer Fit to Serve the Global Games Community
By Dante Douglas March 27, 2018 | 4:15pm
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Far Cry 5 Talks a Lot Without Really Saying Anything
By Garrett Martin March 26, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Far
Cry 5 cares
less about politics than being the reinvention this series needed
By William Hughes March 26, 2018 | 10:00am
