Interview: The Creators of "Rubber Match" Talk Wrestling, Romance, and Sports Manga

Every wrestling fan knows that wrestling has an element of homoeroticism, but their responses to that vary. Some ignore it, some joke about it, and some, like comics writer Elizabeth Brie and artist K...

Still Life Critique & Q&A with Still Life with Apricots and Pears

The tension between the comfort of the familiar and the surprise of the unexpected is at the core of why watching wrestling is fun. Much of the time, the familiar comes in the form of the performers t...

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Why 2016 is the perfect time for a noir thriller about the Berlin Wall

All Walls Must Fall is the brainchild of four developers behind 2012’s celebrated action game Spec Ops: The Line. Set in an alternate-history Berlin where the wall nev...

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The zombie apocalypse, 10 years on

10 years ago, the city of Malton underwent a government-imposed quarantine due to a zombie outbreak. Not literally, but virtually. This happened in a browser-based online game called Urban Dead...

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Inside the two-toned creepiness of The Shrouded Isle

The Shrouded Isle is a “cult village management simulator.” That’s the tagline for the game on the website. You manage a village of cultists. Imagine a visual novel about ancient gods with a si...

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Deadly Tower of Monsters: An interview with ACE Team

Fitting most indie games into a clean and tidy category or genre is usually an exercise in futility. Many indie studios make evocative, surprising, and entirely unique experiences that you just can’t ...

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Dream Daddy invites you to make your own 'Dadsona'

“I’m in art college,” explains Leighton Gray, art director and co-creator of Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator. “We were talking about furry culture and Fursonas and all the different perso...

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Talking Games with Psychologist Laura Crawford

She has recently worked with Nexon on their MMO Riders of Icarus, providing insight into player psychology for the team and explaining the processes of embodiment that players exper...

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Anthony Burch: diversity is common sense

There are many moral and philosophical arguments to be made about why diversity in games matters. Unfortunately, there are also many people who remain unmoved by those arguments. Trying to change peop...

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Game Addiction: Knowing When to Disconnect

Games are fun. For most people who play games, that’s a pretty obvious statement. Games can help us relax, connect with other people, and even exercise our brains. All in all, games can be a good use ...

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Planetbase's update strategy

With the recent release of planet-colonization sim Planetbase, combined with four swift patches to it, we’ve seen another example of the fine line between a bug and a feature. After its release on Oct...