1. No half-assed performance: how playing with a live crowd turns video games into performance art

   The Guardian » 5 days ago

   Spending eight hours in a theatre with 70 people playing through political donkey epic asses.masses was gruelling – and a tribute to gaming’s shared joyThis weekend, I spent more than eight hours in a theatre playing a video game about donkeys, reincarnation and organised...

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1. Consume Me review - anything but empty calories

   The Guardian » 4 weeks ago

   Hexecutable; PCA teenage slice-of-life tale, an energy-management challenge and a satire of diet culture – this indie award-winner is a flavoursome treatIf you accept the received wisdom that the Game awards are the Oscars of the int...

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1. Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach

   The Guardian » 4 weeks ago

   Video game chat platform tells users that driver’s licences and passports were among the forms of data accessed via a third-party customer service providerVideo game chat platform Discord has suffered a data breach, informing users that their personal information – includ...

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1. Meet Anamanaguchi, the band behind the last Scott Pilgrim video game’s soundtrack – and the next one

   The Guardian » 3 weeks ago

   Chiptune alt-rock band Anamanaguchi are having a bumper year, culminating in an opportunity to create the soundtrack they’ve always wanted to make – for a new Scott Pilgrim gameScott Pilgrim, the series of pop culture-saturated graphic novels by Canadian author and comic ...

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1. Space Harrier at 40: how Sega’s surreal classic brought total immersion to arcades in the 80s

   The Guardian » 3 weeks ago

   As they flew above Yu Suzuki’s innovative, psychedelic 3D landscapes combating space dragons and alien rock monsters, the moving arcade cabinet would fling players around and physically involve them in the actionDuring our family’s holidays in the 1980s...

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1. Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 review – an interestingly toothless piece of noir fiction

   The Guardian » 2 weeks ago

   PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox (version tested); The Chinese Room/Paradox InteractiveArriving more than two decades after the original, this sequel was mired in development disaster – resulting in an interesting almost-failure...

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1. Virtual Monopoly, Uno and Yahtzee over the real thing? No thanks | Dominik Diamond

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   When our family board game night got cancelled, I sampled digital spins on the classics instead. I’m not sure I should have bothered – with one exception …I don’t play video game versions of board games. Why would you? The whole point of video games is to be faster, more ...

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1. Inside the secret psychology of horror games – and why we can’t help pushing play

   The Guardian » 4 days ago

   It’s not just what we hear and see that scares us, according to those behind many of video gaming’s modern horror classicsThe sound came first. In a San Francisco Bart train tunnel, Don Veca took his recorder and captured a train’s metallic roar – “like demons in agony, b...

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