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Essays about video games and video game writing.
How do you review a game that refuses to give the player what they want?
Fixing a world that doesn't need fixing.
Anything can be cozy as long as you don't have to have stakes in it.
Avowed is nearly a great game, but it couldn't help me be a great audience for it.
On the "right" way to play an old, single-player game.
There should be more baseball games as the industry expands, not fewer. Here are four ideas.
Is it about winning, or about how you win?
The time is the present. It used to be, anyway.
A soldier’s life is terrible hard, says Alice.
One of a wave of sports games that tried things another way—this attempt just wasn't too successful.
There's nothing quite like the future of the past.
The baseball video game that started it all.