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How Video Games Could Benefit from Hurting Us More
Gaming representations of physical and mental suffering are regularly reductive. But by really making us hurt, these experiences could become unnerving and exciting.
Ahead of ‘Fallout 4’, Let’s Look at Gaming’s Most Gorgeous Apocalypses
A brief overview of gaming's more pleasant-on-the-eye ends of the world as we know it.
Diversity in Gaming Is Happening, So Let's Rejoice
The games industry is (finally) creating formidable female lead characters that are more than just tits and guns.
Exploring the Art of Turning Video Games into Comics
Developers have long been influenced by the world of comics – but in recent years that relationship has reversed, with comics taking cues from video games.
Gaming Will Never Have Its ‘Citizen Kane’ Moment, and Needs to Nurture New Narratives
By aping cinema, video gaming's storytellers have been selling themselves short for years. It's time to embrace the medium's unique possibilities.
Filmmakers Still Don’t Understand Video Games
'Halo: Nightfall' offers disappointing evidence that the worlds of movies and games remain tough to unite.
Video Game Guns Get Everything Wrong
Gaming is full of weapons with no weight. Receiver was different, and its maker is all for greater gravitas to machine-gun murder.
They May Look Great, But Video Games Can Never be “Cinematic”
Today's big-budget video games look and sound great, but "cinematic" is something that they're not.
The Importance of Gaming Idle
Don't run. Don't shoot. Just look and listen, and wait a while. Who knows what you might see...
This Is Why Male Video Game Characters Suddenly Got All Soft
Gone are the days of macho virtual meatheads. Now, male video game protagonists are far more likely to be sensitive, suffering souls.
Here's What You Need to Play Until 'GTA V' Comes Out
Because, let's face it, that's all you're thinking about.