The year’s smartest game asks: Is civil democracy just a fantasy? (gifted link)
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Annapurna video-game team resigns, leaving partners scrambling
45 votes -
Deadlock breaks 100,000 concurrent players with new peak
23 votes -
Linux vs Windows gaming benchmarks: Fedora 40 scores surprising wins
18 votes -
You should own your games
31 votes -
Dungeons and Dragons - short essays from celebrity DnD players
16 votes -
Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ gaming staff votes to unionize
33 votes -
Roblox’s pedophile problem
27 votes -
How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play
15 votes -
‘Escape From Tarkov’ fans are outraged at new $250 pay-to-win edition
49 votes -
The small company at the center of ‘Gamergate 2.0’
39 votes -
Easy mode is actually for adults
60 votes -
The personal, political art of board-game design
6 votes -
The chaos of the dice
13 votes -
‘The Finals’ is the most fun I’ve had in an FPS in years
12 votes -
Video reveals crucial details of LAPD ignoring robbery to catch Togetic in Pokémon Go
34 votes -
Unity overhauls controversial price hike after game developers revolt
38 votes -
Super Mario Bros. Wonder is what happens when devs have time to play
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The offbeat, wonderful Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari
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They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft – and unearthed new potential for AI
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Welcome to the oldest part of the metaverse - Ultima Online, which just turned 25, offers a lesson in the challenges of building virtual worlds
12 votes -
Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI
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Meet the inspirational owner of Norway's esports powerhouse Omaken Sports
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Artosis, esports casting godfather, moves on
15 votes -
The Venezuelans trying to escape their country through video game grunt work
7 votes -
A New Yorker interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki about Elden Ring
8 votes -
The unnerving rise of video games that spy on you
14 votes -
The New York Times buys Wordle
37 votes -
Wordle | Game of words
11 votes -
The gritty, underground network bringing Japan’s arcades to the US
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The next video game from BioShock’s creator is in development hell
13 votes -
PlayStation plans new service to take on Xbox Game Pass
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He created The Oregon Trail and he didn’t make a penny
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The case against open-world games - Grand Theft Auto set the standard, and video games have been worse off ever since
8 votes -
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick knew for years about sexual-misconduct allegations at videogame giant
10 votes -
The dark side of chess: Payoffs, points and twelve-year-old Grandmasters
5 votes -
Curt Schilling’s failed game studio finally sends last paychecks
7 votes -
How a board game about birds became a surprise blockbuster
14 votes -
Remember when multiplayer gaming needed envelopes and stamps? The history of play by mail games
9 votes -
Blizzard turned game developers into rock stars. Misbehavior followed
11 votes -
Hou Yifan and the wait for chess’s first woman world champion
4 votes -
Blizzard botched Warcraft III remake after internal fights, pressure over costs
9 votes -
Your grandma’s tube TV is the hottest gaming tech
9 votes -
It began as an AI-fueled dungeon game, it got much darker
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The revolution in classic Tetris - A younger generation is utilizing the internet to master the NES game in months, surpassing milestones that previously took decades
22 votes -
A bird-feed seller beat a chess master online. Then it got ugly.
23 votes -
Virtual reality has real problems. Here’s how game developers seek to delete them.
10 votes -
Inside Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous rollout
19 votes -
Lucasfilm Games announces that Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment is developing an open-world Star Wars game, the first non-EA Star Wars game since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012
15 votes -
The rise of Sierra Online wasn’t exactly a fairytale. Founder Ken Williams opens up about his new book, video game design in the late 80s—and his regrets about selling the company.
8 votes