Tag: gaming

Five longreads on the culture and creativity that games have spawned.

How a malevolent, remorseless online troll and the shoot-first, ask questions later mode of policing added up to a real-life tragedy in Wichita Kansas.

Second Life offers both escapism and a refuge for its hard-core digital denizens.

In Vulture, Frank Guan, an avid gamer himself, digs deep into the appeal and addictive qualities of video games in an effort to understand the psychology that undergirds hard-core gaming — and whether it has an impact on or can predict our politics.

At Nautilis, Simon Parkin examines the responsibilities and challenges of engineering luck into video games.

When pay-to-play becomes pay-to-win, the classic model of video games—paying for time or access to the game—turns into something much more insidious. In The Baffler, game designer Ian Bogost asks us to consider which extracts a higher social cost: the explicit violence of Grant Theft Auto, or the addiction and sly financial drain of Candy Crush? […]

A group of Hungarian game developers spent more than 20 years developing a game for the Commodore 64.