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Do you remember the time you met your best friend — that feeling of apprehension initiating conversation wondering just how much of your true self to reveal? Time has a way of undoing things, inc...
There are people who, I am told, feel relaxed when they play Subnautica. They find it pleasant to swim through an underwater alien world where distinct and colorful biomes seamlessly melt toget...
Every so often, there’s one of those games that just looks cooler every single time you see it. Each new trailer or preview has you nodding your head along and thinking “If this is what they’re showin...
It’s true! While I won’t provide the internet with pictures of my dad (you’re sometimes untrustworthy weirdos, I’m sorry), you just have to believe me when I say my father could easily have been cast...
I panicked last year when my university announced that classes were moving online during the pandemic. Like most professors, I had never taught online before, and didn’t even know where to start. For...
Even in Arcadia is one of the most faithful portrayals of nature you’ll find in video games precisely because it is so breathtakingly fake. In Phoebe Shalloway’s far-future satire of space capi...
When I interviewed Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida in May, I asked him about the community’s enduring enthusiasm over the concept of NPC dating. It’s a request he gets often, so it’s...
I’ve heard teaching can be fulfilling. There’s power in taking a young or inexperienced mind and watching it blossom under your tutelage. Passing on your knowledge to someone ensures a long, bright fu...
There was a popular saying at Hi-Tech Expressions, the Manhattan-based video game publisher and developer: “To work at Hi-Tech, you have to play an instrument.”
E.T. for the Atari 2600 is one of the most infamous video games in history — the title is often held up as the last straw that ended the first video game boom and led to truckloads of cart...
Warframe “The New War” releases next week. With it comes the long-awaited climax of the game’s years-long story arc, alongside a mission that forces the Tenno to face their most dangerou...
This December, two things are bound to happen. First, CDPR will release Cyberpunk 2077 to its rabid fanbase of gamers amid concerns about labor practices at the notoriously c...
In late August, Sony shared details around how developers are making use of technologies like Adaptive Triggers and Haptic Feedback in the PlayStation 5’s DualSense controllers. From locking down the...
Since its early 2019 release, Apex Legends has borrowed liberally from its predecessors: It used a hero system similar to Overwatch, took its weapons and lore from the Titanfall s...
It feels a little surreal that we’re getting a sequel to The World Ends With You 14 years later. Though it’s more accurate to say this is a sequel to the currently airing anime and a “follow-...
2020 and COVID-19 brought about an unthinkable time in the fighting game community. For a group of players so reliant on in-person interaction for the highest possible quality for both viewers and tho...
Were you around for the release of the PlayStation 2? Were you televisually bombarded by all its weird commercials promising a new, immersive future for gamers everywhere? What about back even further...
When I think about SSX, the first thing that comes to mind is the sound. It’s the noise the board makes as it cuts through the snow; the electronic mix that plays as you make your way down the...
March 2020 was, for most, a precarious period of national lockdowns, quarantines, and canceled plans. But for Nintendo, March 20 of last year marked the beginning of a phenomenon that t...
Localizing a video game is a tremendous amount of work that goes beyond just simple translation. Normally, this task is performed by localization experts, either through outsourcing or through an inte...
