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Personal stories that celebrate gaming culture.

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Firewatch Burns a New Path to Understanding

Answers appear on an auburn horizon

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Nintendo's DS Delivered the Visual Novel to the West

No other platform did as much to popularize the genre

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Discovering Gravitation in Gravity Rush

Wishing we could feel the Rush again

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When It's Better to Know the Ending

Sometimes it's all about the journey

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A Brief History of the Nuzlocke Challenge

How two simple rules changed the landscape of Pokémon

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The Hidden Depth of In-Game Texts

What collectible texts and audio logs have to say about their world

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The Joy and Pain of Game Mastery

Exploring how to create interesting and challenging content for all players

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Super Metroid at 30

Exploring the world of a classic franchise at its 30th birthday

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The Quiet Genius of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Rebirth arrives with a brilliant take on "that" scene

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Where Are All The Black and White Video Games?

Examining the use of monochrome palettes in game design

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2024 is the Year of Omori

Waiting for something to happen? Surprise, it has!

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Remnant II: All the Small Things

Remnant II sweats the small stuff so we can enjoy it

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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth – A Hero’s Game, a Dragon’s Story

Introspection in retrospect

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Finding My Monopoly

Exploring the author's journey from unsatisfying Monopoly games to hidden gems of economic critique

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Memento Mori

Or, how Persona 3 questions the meaning of life by facing the answer head-on

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How They Wish To Be Left Alone

Jarburg, and how Elden Ring offers tranquility among violence and death

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Sid Meier's Pirates! Allowed Gamers to Become Swashbucklers

Hoisting the anchor

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When Tears of the Kingdom is Your First Zelda Game

Beginning with the best

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On Persona 5 Strikers and Building Resilience as a Writer

Life imitates art imitating life

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On Critique and Caring

Exploring the nature of critique

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Tribes Vengeance: The Forgotten FPS

One of the best from a year full of greats

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Shadow the Hedgehog: Is Black the New Blue?

Digging into the history of the anti-Sonic

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Sonic Prime Asks Who Sonic is Without His Friends

Sonic in Netflix-land

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GameCube Collecting is Healing My Inner Child

Exploring the world of retro game collecting in the age of digital loss

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MatPat Leaves Game Theory in New Hands

It's not just a theory