Zack Kotzer
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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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Horror Master Junji Ito Doesn’t Know Video Games—But Video Games Certainly Know Him
The manga artist has had an outsized influence, both direct and indirect, on spooky gaming.
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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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Video Games Face Mass Extinction. For Some, It’s Already Too Late.
Inside the human and cultural costs of an increasingly impermanent art form.
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PleaseFundMe: How Crowdfunding Is Changing the Way We Talk About Games
Patreon and similar sites have amplified a wider range of voices and topics, but the new new media landscape brings risks of its own.
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The First, Mostly Forgotten Blair Witch Games Were Weird as Hell
Looking back on a trilogy full of twig monsters, zombie priests, and Confederate ghosts with the people who summoned it.