9 Best Articles in 2022
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Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss on making The Matrix Awakens with Epic Games
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2021-12-10 · Epic Games made an interactive Matrix experience to show off its upcoming Unreal Engine 5. We sat down with the two stars of the demo and the Matrix movies, ...
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The Kilobyte’s Gambit ♟️💾 1k chess game
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1 min read · 2021-03-05 · Can you beat 1024 bytes of JavaScript?
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'Civilization' and Strategy Games' Progress Delusion
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7 min read · From 2019 · How strategy games have held on to one of colonialism's most toxic narratives, and how they might finally be letting it go.
The Economist’s 1843 magazine
Escape to another world
The Economist’s 1843 magazine
20+ min read · From 2017 · As video games climb to new heights of sophistication and physical beauty, more and more young American men are withdrawing from personal relationships and the workforce to spend more time in virtual worlds. In this piece for The Economist Group’s cultural magazine 1984, editor and global economy expert Ryan Avent poses more questions than answers as he explores the relationship between America’s dwindling young workforce and the comfort they find within the confines of video games.
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Apple, Epic, and the App Store
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~11 min read · 2020-08-17 · The App Store is not one thing: it is installation, payments, and customer management; the further Apple gets from iOS, the worse its actions are for users and developers.
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First Look at Nintendo Labo
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From 2018 · Get ready to Make, Play and Discover with Nintendo Labo! Nintendo Labo is a new line of interactive build-and-play experiences that combine DIY creations wit...
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7 Reasons Why Video Gaming Will Take Over
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~19 min read · From 2020 · It’s replicating the most lucrative entertainment businesses on earth… and then adding a lot more.
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The Legend of Nintendo
Bloomberg
~14 min read · From 2018 · With the Switch, the 130-year-old gaming giant has once again turned reports of its demise into Nintendo Mania.
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The trouble with Roblox, the video game empire built on child labour
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~13 min read · Jan 9th · Young developers on the platform used by many millions of children claim they have been financially exploited, threatened with dismissal and sexually harassed
WIRED
The Gritty, Underground Network Bringing Japan’s Arcades to the US
WIRED
~17 min read · Jan 14th · After falling in love with an obscure anime rhythm game, I became obsessed with obtaining a machine of my own—or finding the people who could.
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Black Hair in Video Games Is Terrible. These 3D Artists Are Changing That.
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5 min read · Jan 7th · The Open Source Afro Hair Library, slated to launch on Juneteenth 2023, will be the gaming world’s first free database of 3D-modeled Black hairstyles.
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What to Read About Wordle—While Everybody’s Still Talking About It
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Jan 12th · The backstory behind the massively popular online word game, plus tips, tricks, and appreciations for the puzzler that won the internet in January 2022.
Ars Technica
Wordle and IP law: What happens when a hot game gets cloned
Ars Technica
6 min read · Jan 12th · Apple is belatedly purging copies that were clogging up the iOS App Store.
Fandom
Speedrun
Fandom
6 min read · Jan 17th · The standard maps in Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom are designed principally for solo play, with deathmatch modifications added as an afterthought. Early Doom players therefore looked for a way to…
The Guardian
How to win at Wordle using linguistic theory
The Guardian
3 min read · Jan 11th · The key to success is understanding the rules that govern how sounds fit together, says author David Shariatmadari
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PUBG developer sues Apple over alleged rip-offs being sold in the App Store
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1 min read · Jan 13th · PUBG's developer sued the maker of another popular battle royale game, Free Fire. Not only that, but Krafton alleges that Apple has refused to stop selling rip-off versions of its games.
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We Tracked Down the People Who Are Actually Buying Ubisoft’s NFTs
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5 min read · Jan 13th · Ubisoft was the first major gaming publisher to start distributing NFTs, but it's not clear what (or who) they're for.
