Gaming

Mastering games could be the first step to mastering real life. For a brief moment, we could taste victory. On the first turn of our online Pokémon battle against the player Athena2023, our Aegislash dealt some serious damage to Athena2023’s Gengar.

These days, Nintendo is synonymous with video games, and it’s hard to imagine the medium without Mario and The Legend of Zelda. But that wasn’t always the case. Nintendo emerged into gaming after the large-scale recession known as the video game crash of 1983.

We live in an era when anyone can own and operate a 3D printer. While not without its flaws, the technology has continued to make headlines during the Covid pandemic.

Though many tabletop titles out there cater to two players, there’s nothing like a proper two-player board game.

This is a story about a lot of things. It's about Duolingo, obviously. That's in the headline. But it's actually a story about doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons. But it's also a story about how quickly gamification can transform one thing into another thing.

In retrospect, it was pretty clear HBO’s take on The Last of Us was going to do away with one of the source material’s best moments.

Pierre Shorette doesn’t send a lot of DMs, but this was an exception. He was on the hunt. Shorette’s then girlfriend had been playing her way through small narrative games; she’d finished Lucas Pope’s Papers, Please and was, unsuccessfully, looking for a lost gem: Cart Life. 

It seems like every major developer is working on an open-world shooter with co-op and RPG elements. But with Redfall, by drawing inspiration from a number of its previous titles, alongside other standouts in the genre, Arkane Studios has added fun new twists to the typical fps survival game.

A lot has changed since that infamous Grammy text to Kendrick Lamar. But almost 10 years later, Macklemore remains a relevant avatar in discussions about “socially conscious” music and cultural appropriation in art.

Brandon Sanderson is a fantasy author who nets tens of millions of dollars in book sales every year, which puts him in the same book-selling league as George R.R. Martin.