Culture / Video Games
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The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters
Speedrunning video games, the competitive field of playing through digital games as quickly as possible, has in recent years been…
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‘Crush House’ Is a Game For People Who Love Drama
Recently, while stuck inside sick with Covid-19’s new FLiRT variant, I honored its ridiculous name with a binge-watch of Love…
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How 'World of Warcraft' Devs Launched One of the Biggest Unions in Video Games
They started with fliers. The group of World of Warcraft developers at Activision Blizzard, determined to unionize, were testing the…
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'Date Like Goblins' Thinks Playing Games Can Fix Dating Apps
Swiping apps have gamified dating. Date Like Goblins wants to solve that by turning first dates into gaming sessions. The…
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Video Game Performers Are Going on Strike Over AI
Actors in the video game industry are going on strike. On Thursday, the union representing voice and motion-capture performers announced…
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AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry
When Noah saw the email, a wave of anxiety hit. It was spring 2023, and the Activision artist was reading…
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A Chaotic History of Clickolding, the Year’s Most Disturbing Game
The man in the mask wants you to click the tally counter. So begins Strange Scaffold’s short, yet highly distressing…
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Fortnite Has a Political Violence Problem
In the hours after former US president Donald Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, a new Fortnite game appeared: Donald…
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The Real Reason Will Smith Broke Twitch’s Biggest Streaming Record
Every summer, the Spanish Twitch streamer Ibai Llanos hosts a livestreamed boxing tournament called La Velada del Año (The Evening…
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‘Death Occurs in the Dark’: Indie Video Game Devs Are Struggling to Survive
Necrosoft Games was running out of money. At the rate things were going, the video game studio’s director, Brandon Sheffield,…
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