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April 4, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
You’ll Never Guess What RFK Jr. Says Really Causes Mass Shootings
The independent presidential candidate has an interesting opinion on what causes mass shootings.
February 17, 2023
Phillip Maciak
Why The Last of Us Keeps Starting Over
The most satisfying—and most frustrating—features of HBO’s hit show are the future of TV.
June 25, 2021
MagazineAlex Pareene
Video Games Are a Labor Disaster
Why do game studios keep imploding?
May 15, 2019
Leila McNeill
Video Game Workers See Power in a Union
In a first for the industry, employees at Riot Games walked out to protest workplace discrimination and the forced arbitration that perpetuates the problem.
March 9, 2018
Matt Ford
Trump can’t do much about violent video games, thanks to Antonin Scalia.
November 1, 2017
Deirdre Coyle
Why Are Video Games so Gendered?
The chauvinistic gaming world has always been hostile to women. A new book looks at how it got that way.
August 24, 2016
Nicholas Bowman
When Real Violence Inspires Virtual Reality
July 11, 2016
Clio Chang
The hottest new social network is: Pokémon Go.
June 10, 2016
Will Leitch
Warcraft: Bored of the Rings
Based on the popular video game, the film is nearly impossible for non-players to understand.
April 15, 2016
Clio Chang
It Mii: The Rise and Fall of Miitomo
Nintendo's first foray into social networking is a nostalgic failure.
April 8, 2016
Will Leitch
Hardcore Henry: First Person Misfire
Watching someone play a video game is more fun than this movie.
October 20, 2015
Kevin Nguyen
Hideo Kojima Is the Jonathan Franzen of Video Games
'The Phantom Pain’ is a big, riveting video game of sophomoric ideas
October 13, 2015
Simon Parkin
Making Video Games from Art
The impossible, perspective-fudging worlds of M. C. Escher and Salvador Dalí come to life in 'Monument Valley' and 'Back to Bed'
September 29, 2015
Kevin Nguyen
Rocket League Is Soccer’s Beautiful Video Game
November 26, 2014
Joe Donnelly
Skyrim Is Teaching Students in Texas About the Decline of U.S. Power
August 26, 2014
Danny Vinik
What Amazon Knows—and You Don't—About the Future of Video Games
Five charts that explain why the industry is worth a fortune
August 6, 2014
Alice Robb
Tipper Gore Was Right, Violent Video Games Are Bad For You
Especially those ones that play with your sense of self ...
July 11, 2014
Phil Hartup
Why Can’t Women Compete Against Men at Video Games?
Sexism, that’s why
June 7, 2014
Phil Hartup
Why Is it So Appealing to Play as a Terrorist in Video Games?
May 22, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
Google Gets It: Video Games Are A Spectator Sport
Why buying Twitch, the ESPN of gaming, for a $1 billion makes perfect sense.

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