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Ars chats at length with the creator of Papers, Please in his current home of Japan. (2019)

Tiny Shanghai-based studio Pixpil beats giants like Nintendo at their own game with the new Eastward, a vintagey-looking adventure that follows an ... (2021)

Riot Games, creator of the wildly popular League of Legends, says it puts players’ enjoyment above the need to produce profits. And that may be the... (2018)

'Fortnite' – the wildly popular video game – is a dangerously addictive, robs students of precious time and teaches individualism instead of cooper... (2018)

Using video games to foster community and social interaction. Meet the father who created a Minecraft community for people with autism. Stuart Dun... (2018)

In 1984, during the Cold War, a Russian programmer named Alexey Pajitnov created something special: A puzzle ga... (2018)

Looking back at the art, history and design of the Atari home gaming system “The story of Atari is also a local one, an early and entirely class... (2017)

SimCity just turned 30. It has introduced millions of players to the joys and frustrations of zoning, street grids and infrastructure funding. For ... (2019)

Video game legend Chris Roberts has spent seven years building "Star Citizen," drawing in money from average gamers in the world's biggest crowdfu... (2019)

How Idle Heroes took its place in the top grossing charts "In June of 2016, little known Chinese publisher DroidHang Games (aka “DH Games”) laun... (2019)

Want to build worlds, become a crime kingpin, get lost in space, or enter the afterlife? Then our countdown of the 50 best games of the era has som... (2019)

YouTubers, influencers and streamers popularized the multiplayer game. Then their fans started playing too. (2020)

This infographic visualizes 50 years of gaming history, from the first wave of arcades and home consoles to a tsunami of mobile gaming. (2020)