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Three days in the woods with Psychonauts 2 backers

We tag along on one of the most elaborate crowdfunding rewards to date

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Take a closer look at one of the best video game cities, Grim Fandango’s Rubacava

We present an excerpt from the upcoming book Virtual Cities

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A brief history of Spider-Man games

He’s a vigilante, a public menace and the star of more than three decades of absurd video games

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What is cyberpunk?

We present a brief history of the near future

• Cover Story

The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that never was

About 10 years ago, Electronic Arts developed and then canceled a game about Jack the Ripper. This is its story.

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Revisiting The Order: 1886 with developer Ready At Dawn

We look back at one of the prettiest — and shortest — PS4 exclusives

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The Greg Miller story

One of gaming’s most popular internet personalities talks about life, games and celebrity

• Backlog Week

What’s in your backlog? We asked game designers, artists, writers and more

The games that some of our favorite people in the industry still have to play

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The 11 Wii U to Switch ports we need immediately

Missed these games on Wii U? Or missed Wii U entirely? There’s room on Switch for us all to play catch-up.

• Backlog Week

RPGs need in-game recaps to help us out

Just like serialized TV, role-playing games should start catching us up on what we may have forgotten

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How to make a game about drinking with Satan

A chat with Night School Studio about its upcoming game Afterparty

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Gaming’s toxic men, explained

Experts tackle the phenomenon of angry men, trolls, racists and misogynists who hover around the video game industry

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A forgotten DOS game helped me cope with childhood

Artist Carta Monir on Magic Pockets

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The 35 greatest NES games, part 2

Take a look at the top 15 games on Nintendo’s groundbreaking console

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The video games of Ecuadorean fishing village Santa Marianita

We take another look at how people find ways to play games everywhere

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How a Diablo expansion led to behind the scenes trouble

Dig into the story behind Diablo: Hellfire

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The life of a Grand Theft Auto role-player

A subset of GTA Online players has found a way to make its own fun

• Report

Why are game companies so afraid of the politics in their games?

Social issues are profitable, they just don’t want to talk about it

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Meet Mark Doherty, the man behind the Fake Kaz Hirai Twitter account

And find out why he decided to call it quits

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Players keep spending thousands of dollars on Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

Community members tell stories of banner addiction

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The Fallout timeline

History ... never changes

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The rocky story of Retro Studios before Metroid Prime

It was a long road getting to one of Nintendo’s most-loved games

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Splatterhouse 2010: What went wrong

We look into what happened behind the scenes with BottleRocket Entertainment’s final game

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Life, and how to live it, explored in a new game

Walden follows in the footsteps of a great American thinker

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The past, present and future of The Binding of Isaac

With the final update released, is the creator ready to step away?

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Five years later, Sony looks back at how the DualShock 4 Share button happened

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The definitive ranking of Donkey Kong games

From mathematic misery to mighty masterpieces, it’s every Kong adventure listed from least to best

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Meet the studio behind Call of Duty: Black Ops and Zombies mode

Before the reveal of Black Ops 4, Treyarch looks back at its work on Call of Duty

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Panzer Dragoon Saga: An oral history

For the 20th anniversary of one of the most beloved role-playing games, we tracked down 15 people who worked on it and asked them to look back

• Culture

The Pokémon Draft 2018: Who goes No. 1?

The talent pool is much deeper than the NFL’s

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Toy companies analyze Nintendo’s plans for Labo

We talk with those making other build-it-yourself experimental tech toys