Feature
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Games Don’t Cause Violence—But They Might Help Breed the Online Hate That Does
Internet toxicity doesn’t begin or end with gaming, but it’s foolish to ignore the connection.
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“Pour Your Heart Into It”: How Indies Bring New Perspectives to Visual Novels
Visual novels have seen a meteoric rise in recent years thanks to the efforts of independent studios.
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How Warsaw Captures the Brutality—and Complexity—of the Historical Uprising that Inspired It
A new tactics game draws from one of the bleakest chapters of World War II.
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Playing the Odds: Inside the Budding World of Esports Betting
Can a deep knowledge of the game help you outsmart the house?
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Playing Your Song: The Evolution of Dynamic Music in Games
For more than 25 years, developers and composers have been pushing tech forward to unify gameplay and soundtrack.
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Jam Sesh: How a Popular Online Contest Sparks Design Innovation
The GMTK Game Jam has grown so big it actually took down itch.io.
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Willing to Risk Anything: How Streets of Rage 4 Aims to Revive a Beloved Franchise
Dotemu is modernizing what some have called a dead genre.
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How France Became Competitive Soulcalibur’s Global Superpower
The right game, at the right time, in the hands of the right people.
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Pleasure to Burn: Why Campfires Are so Ubiquitous in Games
Who knew some flaming sticks could be imbued with this much meaning?
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To Make Later Alligator, Smallbu Had to Wrestle with Game Design
The animators behind the Baman Piderman cartoons faced new challenges translating their skills to gamemaking.
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At 20, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Reflects the Series’ Past, Present, and Potential Future
Looking back on the eventful development and complicated legacy of a survival horror classic.
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Let’s Pop: Behind the Bubblegum Dream of Sayonara Wild Hearts
According to Simogo, this is all Garfield’s doing.