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Are old game soundtracks better than new ones, or is it all in our head?
By Derrick Sanskrit August 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Shooter Tutor’s student learns to jump, but can he learn to fight?
By Alex McLevy, Ryan Smith August 27, 2015 | 5:00am
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What the Dante’s Inferno game lacked in subtlety, it made up in devil dong
By Nick Wanserski August 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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22 years in, Magic: The Gathering is the brainiest it’s ever been
By Steve Heisler August 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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WWE 2K16: The Outsider Worlds of Games and Wrestling
By Pilot Viruet August 24, 2015 | 12:00pm
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Does Saints Row IV hold the answers to video games’ relationship woes?
By Matt Gerardi August 21, 2015 | 8:40pm
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1001 Spikes finds comedy in careful, cruel level design
By William Hughes August 21, 2015 | 5:00am
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An A.V. Club staffer embarks on a quest to not suck at shooters
By Alex McLevy, Ryan Smith August 20, 2015 | 5:00am
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Christopher Lloyd is Doc Brown once more in the Lego Dimensions trailer
By Sam Barsanti August 19, 2015 | 7:16pm
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Grand Theft Auto IV removed economic opportunity to tell a more honest story
By Julie Muncy August 19, 2015 | 2:00pm
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The State of Star Wars Videogames Under Disney: A D23 Expo Report
By Dale North August 19, 2015 | 9:00am
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Breeding Games and the Art of the Community
By Carli Velocci August 18, 2015 | 10:00am
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Why love and Fallout have never mixed
By William Hughes August 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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Readers pine for the edutainment games of yesteryear
By Matt Gerardi August 14, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture gives the apocalypse a beautiful soundtrack
By Julie Muncy August 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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Armada and the Geek Hero Complex: Why Ernest Cline Needs to Move On
By Carli Velocci August 13, 2015 | 11:30am
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To Each and Every Star: The Painful Worlds of The Chinese Room
By Javy Gwaltney August 11, 2015 | 1:35pm
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Hands-on With Tacoma: Conversations With Holograms
By Bryce Duzan August 10, 2015 | 11:00am
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Readers pick the tastiest Pokémon and imagine the sad business of Gyrados farming
By Matt Gerardi August 7, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Kings of Poverty: Super Arcade and the Fighting Game Community vs. the City of Azusa
By Suriel Vazquez August 7, 2015 | 1:18pm
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We need more game anthologies like Rare Replay
By Matt Gerardi August 7, 2015 | 5:00am
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Mon is the measure of all things: Unraveling Pokémon’s utopian economy
By Patrick Lee August 5, 2015 | 5:00am
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Tabletop Diversity: Find Yourself in the Cards
By Bryce Duzan August 4, 2015 | 10:15am
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Readers remember the highs and lows of their Magic: The Gathering competitions
By Matt Gerardi July 31, 2015 | 6:45pm
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Tyria is a Place—Azeroth is a Game
By Ian Williams July 31, 2015 | 1:26pm
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What are your highlights from the Summer Games Done Quick speedrun marathon?
By Patrick Lee July 31, 2015 | 5:00am
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What’s it like to be a top Magic: The Gathering player?
By Samantha Nelson July 30, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Gamifying Neoconservatism: The Eurocentric Ideals of Games
By Patrick Lindsey July 29, 2015 | 2:30pm
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What’s your procrastination inclination?
By Patrick Lee July 24, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ninja Gaiden tried to be a movie but found its drama in the language of comics
By Anthony John Agnello July 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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Before Spelunky and FTL, There Was Only ASCII
By Mark R Johnson July 22, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Sentinels Of The Multiverse pays tribute to convoluted comic-book universes
By Samantha Nelson July 21, 2015 | 5:00am
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Readers remember the influence and accomplishments of Satoru Iwata
By Matt Gerardi July 17, 2015 | 6:00pm
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You Don't Know Samus—and Neither Do I
By Maddy Myers July 17, 2015 | 3:12pm
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Two new games with old-school spirit help break the summer doldrums
By Matt Gerardi July 17, 2015 | 5:00am
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Simple board games can still offer big challenges
By Samantha Nelson July 16, 2015 | 4:00pm
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How a bizarre bomb-defusing game hides an object lesson in handling any crisis
By Anthony John Agnello July 15, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Wardrobe Theory: The Powerful Fashion of Dishonored's Women
By Gita Jackson July 13, 2015 | 11:30am
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Readers explain what makes Luigi the real hero among the Mario brothers
By Matt Gerardi July 10, 2015 | 7:00pm
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Spectra is a boring game with a great soundtrack, and you can win a copy of both
By Matt Gerardi July 10, 2015 | 5:00am
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Gold-farming in Heroes of the Storm is My New Part-Time Job
By Maddy Myers July 9, 2015 | 11:01am
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The Overblown Action of Uncharted 4
By Garrett Martin July 8, 2015 | 9:00am
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Brothers embodies the best of siblinghood when it breaks your control
By Anthony John Agnello July 8, 2015 | 5:00am
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Maybe this 18-minute video of No Man’s Sky can tell us what the hell it is
By Matt Gerardi July 7, 2015 | 8:30pm
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May the Lord Smile...: Killer7 Turns 10
By Suriel Vazquez July 7, 2015 | 12:00pm
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With Luigi’s Mansion, the youngest Mario brother became the most endearing
By Matt Gerardi July 7, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Many Deaths of the PlayStation Vita
By Imran Khan July 6, 2015 | 10:00am
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What’s your ideal summer video game?
By Matt Gerardi July 3, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Wizard cloaked its heart in unfortunate gimmickry
By Annie Zaleski July 2, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Batman’s move to the big city upset the balance of Arkham Asylum
By Zack Handlen July 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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Tale of Tales: Being Wrong Will Set You Free
By Gita Jackson July 1, 2015 | 10:30am
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What’s your favorite game of 2015 so far?
By Drew Toal, Zack Handlen, Samantha Nelson, Derrick Sanskrit, Sam Barsanti, Matt Gerardi, 5876237249237204994, Patrick Lee June 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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How Mortal Kombat X Made Me Realize I Was Wrong
By Imran Khan June 29, 2015 | 9:30am
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Readers solve VR’s biggest problem: How do you eat pizza while playing?
By Matt Gerardi June 26, 2015 | 6:30pm
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Twitch and Diversity: How to Close the Gap
By Tanya Depass June 26, 2015 | 3:32pm
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Ryu’s Smash Bros. debut is an example of Nintendo’s refreshing approach to DLC
By Matt Gerardi June 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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Why This Lifelong Batman Fan Doesn't Like the Arkham Games
By Gita Jackson June 25, 2015 | 2:17pm
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Shut Up About Voice Chat in Splatoon
By Maddy Myers June 24, 2015 | 10:00am
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The good, the bad, and the decadent: Behind the scenes of our weirdest E3 meetings
By Matt Gerardi, Ryan Smith June 24, 2015 | 5:00am
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Why Dishonored Is The Best Batman Game Ever Made
By Javy Gwaltney June 23, 2015 | 10:51am
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E3 2015: Four Days and Twenty Years of Exhaustion
By Jon Irwin June 22, 2015 | 5:30pm
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A 2-year-old’s playful bliss inspires the Katamari creator’s latest game
By Matt Gerardi June 21, 2015 | 5:15pm
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Ark: Survival Evolved is a dinosaur game where you eat shit and die
By Ryan Smith June 20, 2015 | 5:00pm
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The Coin-Op Revival: Arcade Culture and The Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo
By Garrett Martin June 19, 2015 | 11:38pm
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A Skyshine’s Bedlam dev explains the qualities of a “fun apocalypse”
By Ryan Smith June 19, 2015 | 5:05pm
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Robin Hunicke explains how her new game Wattam can help you land a job
By Matt Gerardi June 19, 2015 | 4:30pm
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What E3 game do you wish you were playing this weekend?
By Matt Gerardi, Ryan Smith June 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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Abzû is a sea of tranquility amid the chaos of E3
By Ryan Smith June 18, 2015 | 8:45pm
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How The Last Guardian plans to form a kinship between boy and beast
By Matt Gerardi June 18, 2015 | 5:45pm
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It’s hard to make people fall in VR without also making them vomit
By Ryan Smith June 18, 2015 | 3:30pm
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Reviewing the fashion (or lack thereof) at the E3 2015 keynotes
By Patrick Lee June 18, 2015 | 2:30pm
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With The Taken King, Destiny may finally add more steak to its sizzle
By Ryan Smith June 17, 2015 | 7:30pm
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“All things tend toward chaos”: Just Cause devs answer our Questionnaire
By Matt Gerardi June 17, 2015 | 7:00pm
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An Uncharted dev talks “grain sack tech” and the glories of old TVs
By Matt Gerardi June 17, 2015 | 3:30pm
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Video game culture needs something more than backward compatibility
By Ryan Smith June 16, 2015 | 9:33pm
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We’re live-chatting the E3 2015 Nintendo Direct announcements
By Matt Gerardi June 16, 2015 | 3:30pm
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E3 2015: Sony and Microsoft's Best Moments
By Garrett Martin June 16, 2015 | 1:34pm
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Disney Interactive Brings in More Outside Talent for Disney Infinity 3.0
By Miguel Concepcion June 16, 2015 | 10:00am
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We’re live-chatting Sony’s E3 2015 PlayStation press conference
By Derrick Sanskrit June 16, 2015 | 12:30am
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Celebrate the weirdness of video games with one last Metal Gear Solid V trailer
By Sam Barsanti June 15, 2015 | 9:39pm
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The Doom trailer boldly recommits to demon murder
By Eric Lindvall June 15, 2015 | 8:35pm
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We’re live-chatting Microsoft’s E3 2015 Xbox press conference
By John Teti June 15, 2015 | 4:00pm
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We’re live-chatting Bethesda’s E3 2015 press conference
By Matt Gerardi June 15, 2015 | 1:30am
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Readers share 1995 gaming memories, and we reveal our E3 questionnaire
By Matt Gerardi June 12, 2015 | 8:05pm
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Apocalypse Always: Fallout 4 and the Never-Ending End
By Brian Taylor June 12, 2015 | 11:50am
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From yeti cultists to appliance delivery: The tale of two tabletop RPG campaigns
By Nick Wanserski June 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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What is your most fondly remembered video game moment of 1995?
By Drew Toal, Ryan Smith, Anthony John Agnello, Samantha Nelson, Sam Barsanti, Derrick Sanskrit, Matt Gerardi, Patrick Lee June 11, 2015 | 3:00pm
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What should we ask game developers at E3?
By Matt Gerardi June 10, 2015 | 5:00pm
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The Virtual Boy didn’t do a damn thing right, but it still had Nintendo’s soul
By Anthony John Agnello June 10, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Wardrobe Theory—The Anachronistic Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
By Gita Jackson June 10, 2015 | 1:15pm
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Olympic Games: E-Sports Inch Closer to Becoming an Olympic Sport
By John Ruch June 9, 2015 | 11:00am
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Readers agree that the world of The Witcher 3 is harsh, but just how harsh is it?
By Matt Gerardi June 5, 2015 | 7:15pm
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The Relentless Humanity of The Witcher 3
By Ian Williams June 5, 2015 | 11:35am
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Checking in on Splatoon’s lively community and sleazy amiibo support
By Matt Gerardi, Derrick Sanskrit June 5, 2015 | 5:00am
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Here’s a look at an adorable new game from the Katamari Damacy creator
By Matt Gerardi June 4, 2015 | 9:32pm
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Steam Refunds: One Game Designer's Opinion
By Cameron Kunzelman June 4, 2015 | 12:00pm
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Metroid works best when Samus’ growth mirrors our own
By Zack Handlen June 3, 2015 | 5:00am
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Napoleonic Wars and the Exciting World of Digital War Reenactment
By Steven Messner June 2, 2015 | 5:38pm
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République explores surveillance by making you both protector and voyeur
By Julie Muncy June 2, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Splatoon’s mythology is the key to one reader’s unified Nintendo universe theory
By Matt Gerardi May 29, 2015 | 7:00pm
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Do you suffer from open-world anxiety in massive games?
By Matt Gerardi May 29, 2015 | 5:00am
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A Simple Kind of Life With Love Live
By Gita Jackson May 28, 2015 | 12:00pm
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Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown—Neon and Smoke and Little Else
By Austin Walker May 28, 2015 | 9:00am
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Meet the tyrannical codpieced villain of the Mad Max video game
By Matt Gerardi May 27, 2015 | 4:36pm
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Closeted Damsels and Heroic Gal Pals: Life is Strange and Tomb Raider
By Maddy Myers May 27, 2015 | 2:30pm
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Charlie’s Angels was always in on the joke—until it became a video game
By Alex McLevy May 27, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Games Are the Anti-Netflix: Playing With Patience
By Jon Irwin May 26, 2015 | 12:30pm
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You Sold Out: How Steam Challenged the Punk Ethos of the Modding Community
By Anthony McGlynn May 25, 2015 | 1:31pm
