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May 21, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
How Scrappy Little Sega Nearly Dethroned Nintendo
The battle that defined a generation
April 8, 2014
Alice Robb
Playing Video Games Can Improve Your Dreams
March 26, 2014
Phil Hartup
A Video Game Without Rules Inevitably Devolves Into Lord of the Flies
September 27, 2013
Michael Thomsen
Video Games Are Making Us Too Comfortable With the Modern Surveillance State
September 24, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
10 Video Games That Made History for Their Amazing Graphics
June 21, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
The Video-Game Propaganda Wars
Authoritarian regimes are making games—and dissidents, too
April 8, 2013
David Thomson
Apocalypses Now
Hollywood action movies need to get over the end of the world
March 15, 2013
Lydia DePillis
Only Liberals Succeed in 'SimCity'
A sure way to lose this video game: Impose sequestration
March 13, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
MoMA Has Mistaken Video Games for Art
The museum is putting 'Pac-Man' alongside Picasso. That misses the point.
March 1, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
Why an Experimental Video Game Is More Anticipated Than Sony's Playstation 4
February 21, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
Wodehouse Meets Star Wars
Ron Gilbert proves that stories matter in video games
February 5, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
China Is Not the Gaming Industry's Next Great Frontier
The People's Republic may lift its ban on consoles. It wouldn't be the boon that many expect.
January 29, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
Atari Is Not an Anomaly
The pioneering video game company is dead. Its successors are making the same mistakes.

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