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Virtual Grassroots: Inside the Tight-Knit World of Competitive VR
VspoRts.
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The Closing Walls Around China’s Independent Game Developers
The odds are nearly impossible, and challenges are only mounting.
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After the Storm: How Life Is Strange 2 Overcame the Pressures of Popularity
Dontnod Entertainment talks about avoiding the sophomore slump.
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Call of the Wild: How Playing as Animals Can Tell Us More About Ourselves
Beast mode.
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Keita Takahashi and the Farce of Virtual Stuff
Or, why Wattam may have a better grasp on our current crisis than Death Stranding.
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The Invisible Art of Game Titles
What’s in a name?
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Tales from the New Small Screen: Inside the World of Mobile Game Writers
Little screens, big worlds.
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Extra Ball: How Visual Pinball Wizards Bring Back the Classics
For this community of enthusiasts, preserving pinball history in virtual form is an intensive—and legally gray—labor of love.
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Surviving GameStop: How Passion, Community, and Novelty Keep Indie Game Stores Alive
In an era dominated by chains and digital distribution, is there still room for the little guys?
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EGM’s Game of the Year 2019: Control
Weird is hard. Even defining what makes a work of fiction “weird” can be a bit slippery. It’s more than just building a world full of the impossible and unfamiliar, since that could just as easily describe boilerplate fantasy or science fiction. The difference, I think, is that true weirdness has to unfurl from the…
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EGM’s Best of 2019: #4 Death Stranding
From the moment Hideo Kojima first forced us to gaze upon the bare ass of CGI Norman Reedus, it was clear Death Stranding would be destined for greatness or madness. As subsequent trailers piled on cryptic image after cryptic image, it began to seem like there was no possible way that all these strands could…
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EGM’s Best of 2019: #5 Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Fire Emblem’s tactical-RPG gameplay is world renowned. Its permadeath feature has prompted countless level replays over the years, and its difficulty tests even the most strategic of minds. And after finding a foothold here in the States following immense popularity in Japan, the series has proven to be a surprising powerhouse for Nintendo. This year’s…