Fragumentary
The i49 TF2 Fragumentary takes you on a journey through Team Fortress 2’s biggest LAN Tournament ever, Insomnia49.
View ArticleReversing the Design
does some in depth analysis of the design decisions in some classic SNES titles: Super Mario World, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy 6.
View ArticleInterhate
Zoe Quinn talks (at Cracked.com, of all places) about 5 Things I Learned as the Internet’s Most Hated Person, in the wake of the idiot-hatefest that has come to be known as hashtag-gamergate. Did I do...
View ArticleRevenge of the Nutters
In the continuing saga that is #GamerGate, Intel today pulled its ads from Gamasutra under pressure from activists involved in Operation Disrespectful Nod. Gamasutra’s response. BoingBoing: Intel pulls...
View ArticleBoob Jam: The Realities of Breasts in a Videogame World
“What if, wrote Jenn Frank, there was a computer game that involved a sexy character shopping for a bra but ended with her crying softly because she could not find one that fitted. “Everyone thought I...
View ArticleThe Only Thing I Have To Say
Felicia Day: “I write this to urge any person, male or female, who now has the impulse to do what I did, to walk away from something they loved before, to NOT. Don’t let other people drive you away...
View ArticleWhy everything and nothing is killing the game industry
Ste Curran‘s (of Agency and One Life Left) talk from GDC Europe 2014.
View ArticleGamergate By The Numbers
Andy Baio (aka waxpancake) runs some interesting analysis on 3 days and 300+ thousand gamergate tweets.
View ArticlePiracy, Irony, Hilarity
What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy? In 2013, Greenheart games released Game Dev Tycoon and then immediately uploaded a cracked version of...
View ArticleTampon Run
The just-launched Tampon Run is a game by Sophie Houser, 17, and Andrea Gonzales, 16.
View Articleall those games!
Jason Scott of the internet Archive announced that the software library, MS-DOS archive and living room console archive can now embed games. Look for the ‘share this’ link.
View ArticleNotch The Billionaire
Inside The Post-‘Minecraft’ Billionaire Life Of Gamer God Markus Persson. “These conversations with FORBES represent Persson’s only interview about the Minecraft deal and his life after. It turns out...
View ArticleGamerGate’s impact on academics and archivists
“There are a number of us in academia who love games, care about games, and believe games are important. We have been working for years to make games a legitimate tool for education and for study, and...
View ArticleFile System Aging
is a video series reminiscing about the games of his childhood by Rab Florence for RPS
View ArticleAn explosion…of emotion.
A critique and retrospective of all eleven Call of Duty games released for the PC between 2003 and 2014 by Noah Caldwell-Gervais. (It’s 2 hours long but I found it fascinating even as someone who has...
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