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Resident Evil 4 makes the real world’s greatest stressor its greatest relief
By Anthony John Agnello October 7, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Even in his own game, Yoshi was Mario’s disposable servant
By William Hughes October 6, 2015 | 5:00am
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Here’s how to build a better Mad Max game
By Matt Gerardi October 2, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Four years of bite-sized card battles later, Ascension still feels fresh
By Samantha Nelson October 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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Love and Anonymity: Nina Freeman’s Cibele
By Imran Khan October 1, 2015 | 1:30pm
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The League of Legends 2015 World Championship: A Primer
By Eric Van Allen September 30, 2015 | 2:30pm
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A hedgehog for all seasons: Our guide to 20 manic years of Sonic cartoons
By Patrick Lee September 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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Somebody's Watching Me: Behind the Robot Camera of Guitar Hero Live
By Garrett Martin September 28, 2015 | 8:00pm
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Why Kiefer Sutherland is the Snake Metal Gear Solid V deserves
By Matt Gerardi September 25, 2015 | 6:30pm
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Panoramical puts you in control of gorgeous, living musical landscapes
By Derrick Sanskrit September 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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Is a month of training enough to turn a shooter zero into a head-shot hero?
By Alex McLevy, Ryan Smith September 24, 2015 | 5:00am
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Alison Brie and Unikitty join the adventure in new Lego Dimensions trailer
By Danette Chavez September 23, 2015 | 5:58pm
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How World Of Warcraft lets players put a price on their time
By Samantha Nelson September 23, 2015 | 1:00pm
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I am Become Rihanna, the Destroyer of Worlds
By Gita Jackson September 22, 2015 | 5:58am
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Kick Out The Blams: A Retrospective on the Games of Newgrounds
By Javy Gwaltney September 21, 2015 | 1:00pm
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Readers lay down their Super Mario Maker do’s and don’ts
By Matt Gerardi September 18, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Modding the Sith Lords: How Fans Salvaged KOTOR 2
By Luke Winkie September 18, 2015 | 1:00pm
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We’re not in Hyrule anymore: Highlights from our Mario Maker community
By Matt Gerardi September 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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Persona 5’s been delayed until next summer, but hey, here’s a new trailer
By William Hughes September 17, 2015 | 8:45pm
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Long-awaited indie game The Witness gets a new trailer and release date
By Sam Barsanti September 17, 2015 | 8:09pm
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Thatgamecompany: Building Connections
By Garrett Martin September 17, 2015 | 5:39pm
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In Super Mario Bros., falling is fun
By Nick Wanserski September 17, 2015 | 5:00am
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Making the Table Bigger: Diversity in Tabletop Gaming
By Katriel Paige September 16, 2015 | 11:28am
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Super Mario World’s Donut Plains 1 recast Mario as a man of balletic grace
By Anthony John Agnello September 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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The original Super Mario Bros. remains Mario’s loneliest quest
By John Teti September 15, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Into The Void: Destiny A Year Later
By Javy Gwaltney September 15, 2015 | 12:24pm
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What’s your favorite “WTF” moment in Mario history?
By Nick Wanserski, Zack Handlen, Anthony John Agnello, Alex McLevy, Derrick Sanskrit, Sam Barsanti, William Hughes, Matt Gerardi, 5876237249237204994 September 15, 2015 | 5:00am
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Michael J. Fox, a ton of other actors reprise iconic roles in this Lego Dimensions trailer
By Caroline Siede September 14, 2015 | 8:00pm
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How the spirit of the original World 1-1 carries on in today’s Mario games
By Matt Gerardi September 11, 2015 | 5:30pm
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Classic card games get a creative mobile makeover in Sage Solitaire
By Matt Gerardi September 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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Bosses, Rogues and Badasses: Chatting with Voice Actress Laura Bailey
By Javy Gwaltney September 10, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Sometimes an obnoxious online rival is all you need to up your game
By Alex McLevy, Ryan Smith September 10, 2015 | 5:00am
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Virtual Reality and the Mirage of Immersion
By Ansh Patel September 9, 2015 | 3:34pm
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Witchy schemes and London Dread: A taste of the new board games at Gen Con 2015
By Samantha Nelson September 8, 2015 | 5:00am
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Readers expose the sad ironies at the heart of Bloodborne
By Matt Gerardi September 4, 2015 | 6:30pm
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The Beard That Launched a Thousand Ships: "Hot Ryu" and Male Sexuality
By Bryce Duzan September 4, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Metal Gear Solid V’s intro renews the series’ weirdness with untimely butt crack
By Joe Keiser September 4, 2015 | 5:00am
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United Nations: Firaxis on Diversity in XCOM 2
By Tanya Depass September 3, 2015 | 3:00pm
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What’s it like to get your first taste of multiplayer glory?
By Alex McLevy, Ryan Smith September 3, 2015 | 5:00am
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Collectible classics: How Assassin’s Creed II accidentally questions art’s value
By Nick Wanserski September 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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Solid History: A Metal Gear Primer
By Luke Winkie September 1, 2015 | 3:30pm
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Bloodborne’s twisted take on Christianity tells a tale of worship gone wrong
By Julie Muncy September 1, 2015 | 3:00pm
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand: Exploring "Hand-holding" in Videogames
By Brian Taylor August 30, 2015 | 12:00pm
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One brave soul rises from the depths of hell to defend EA’s Dante’s Inferno
By Matt Gerardi August 28, 2015 | 6:30pm
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Disney Infinity 3.0 and the Art of Character Design
By Garrett Martin August 28, 2015 | 12:15pm
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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
