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'Watergate: The Video Game' Exists and It's Awesome

The game is the brainchild of writer and improviser Samuel Kim. I caught up with him to investigate the secrets behind this minimasterpiece. Full story

How to Make a Game in 2013: Go Make a Game

It's almost that easy. I made a game in a week to prove it. Full story

EVE Online, Offline: A Chat with the Geeks Living Inside an Interstellar Virtual War

EVE is a massively popular multiplayer online game. Last year, we rolled out to the EVE Fanfest at the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center in Reykjavik, Iceland, to find out what happens when legions of EVE players party together in real life. Full story

I Hate That I Love 'Far Cry 3'

This is a game I had every intention of never playing. If you had told me any of its premise ahead of time, I would have gotten on my indie high horse and sneered safely in the arms of my anti-Ebertian, post-gamer ideals. And yet it moves. Full story

There Is No We in Nintendo's Wii U

When the gaming "revolution" came true, the beleaguered game giant wistfully forgot about it. Full story

RuneScape Robberies

Kids are sticking each other up at gunpoint for virtual world cash. Full story

Everything Ever About Games

Finally, a DIY games doc that promises to actually teach stuff and not just beat the Billy Mitchell-is-a-total-dick trope. Full story

Sheppard's Video Game Pie - Legend of Grimrock

It's an excellent old-school dungeon bash, based on a sort of game that used to be big but isn't really made anymore. Full story

Sheppard’s Video Game Pie

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

The Force Unleashed is the latest Star Wars game by LucasArts, in which you play (mostly) Darth Vader's secret apprentice, Starkiller, during the period between the new movies and original trilogy. Full story

Sheppard’s Video Game Pie

Dead Space

Dead Space is a third-person over-the-shoulder shooter set on the planet-cracking mining starship Ishimura, full of monsters made from the fused and repurposed dead flesh of its former crew. You play Isaac Clark, an engineer on the ship sent to investigate why contact was lost. Full story