In 2012, a small team of developers released a game called Journey. No guns, no open world, no multiplayer progression system. Just a robed figure crossing a...
Ask someone who grew up playing The Legend of Zelda to hum the overworld theme. They will do it immediately, accurately, and probably with a smile. Ask them to...
Walk into any gaming convention today and you will find something that would have surprised observers a decade ago. Alongside the latest releases and newest...
Game designers spend their careers solving a problem that every entrepreneur faces and few name explicitly: how do you make someone want to keep doing...
For a period in the mid-2010s, it genuinely seemed like local multiplayer was dying. Online gaming had matured to the point where playing with friends no...
The business of selling games has always involved commercial pressures. But something shifted in the late 2000s and accelerated through the 2010s that changed...
There was a moment in television criticism when the medium stopped being considered lowbrow entertainment and started being considered art. The Sopranos is...
In 1996, a small group of players modified the first-person shooter Quake to add team-based gameplay. The modification, called Team Fortress, became so popular...
Shirley Curry began posting Skyrim videos on YouTube in 2015. She was 79 years old. Her gentle, wandering playthroughs, narrated in a warm, unhurried voice...
