gaming culture

RD: I think it speaks to how good Matt is at what he does, that we all get to contribute meaningfully, regardless of skill level—to the extent that people think what we’re doing is…

When Google revealed Project Gameface, the company was proud to show off a hands-free, AI-powered gaming mouse that, according to its announcement, “enables people to control a computer’s…

If you’ve spent any time playing Dead Island 2, chances are you’ve noticed the game’s progressive damage system. The Fully Locational Evisceration System for Humanoids, or FLESH, as…

But 11 years is a long time for any scene, and the FGC is in a much different place, especially with regard to how it views queerness and treats its LGBTQ+ community members.Now, some…

Lex and I spent untold hours that summer staring into the green-black screen of an Apple II, venturing from Independence to the Pacific Northwest along the Oregon Trail. It would be years…

Street Fighter 6 also includes another option called “Dynamic controls,” which automatically performs special and standard moves, as well as moves characters toward their opponents with the…

the sound team for Diablo IV needed to determine what a Treasure Beast might sound like. In the fiction, it's a massive, taurus-headed behemoth—complete with rows of yellowed porpoise-like…

Where Breath of the Wild’s comparatively limited set of player interactions meant its world contained plenty of empty spaces—great opportunities to contemplate the movement of the breeze…

To Kwan, and to Capcom, these two versions of Chun Li are different people, with years of life experience between them, which offered an opportunity for Chun Li to grow and mature in her own…

There’s a sequence early in Final Fantasy XVI that made me cringe. A few dramatic plot beats, including a few throat-cuttings and a kid getting hosed like he’s in a slasher film, lead into a…