It’s Mickey, it’s Felix, it’s Cuphead!
Cuphead is a fresh breath of a past that never existed. It offers a tasty mix of old and new.
Real Communities Forming Online – Peek to Soft Toy Lovers Community on Instagram
Online communities can be as real as in ”real life” - Case plushie blogger’s community on Instagram
Beasts of Balance Review
The digital tabletop hybrid game Beasts of Balance takes the best of both worlds, introducing a modern take to a …
Doom Review
Although slightly too long, #Doom revives the #old-school #shooter genre.
Review: Starfinder
Starfinder serves up high fantasy adventure in the stars. #starfinder #review #rpg
A Girl and a Fox Walk Into a Bear – Never Alone Review
A videogame quest, or a quest for knowledge? Turns out you can have both in this indie platformer, Never …
For the Love of Games @ Checkpoint
So in hindsight, maybe it wasn't really a good idea to have a non-Finnish person cover a predominantly Finnish speaking …
Spectating Play Conference Wrapup
Talking eSports, Twitch and kappa at Spectating Play 2017.
Mimicking Gamers: Understanding Gamification Through Roger Caillois.
Through observing the long-term analogies between games and societies and the role performed by mimicry, Cassone's article provides an alternate …
Cards Against Humanity
Cards Against Humanity plays its cards right when you laugh at the things you should not.
Decibels & Destruction: The Soundtrack of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Its Role in the Game
The soundtrack of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is much more than just palatable background noise.
Finnish Game Jam Scene
Annakaisa Kultima, Kati Alha and Timo Nummenmaa, researchers at the University of Tampere, have coauthored a paper at the Academic …
The Design of the Walker Game Experience
Alexander Muscat et al. explore the design themes that make up “walking simulators” or walker games.
Smash Up
Try to master your card deck and the weird combinations of scifi-fantasy factions
Problematic Themes of Colonialism in Board Games
Goa and Navegador depict colonialist empire-building without violence.
How Video Games Help People Make Better Decisions
From misguided beliefs about global warming to side effects of vaccination, biased decision making can wreak havoc. But how does …
There’s No Stopping the NonStop Knight.
The casual game seems to have captured the essence of casual mobile gaming.
News (En)ga(ge)me(nt) Design
How to make journalism more engaging by applying approaches from serious game design?
Platform Studies and Computational Essentialism
Platform studies would benefit from including analog games into the scope of the framework.
Days Gone By: Nostalgia in Game Design
Nostalgia can rise from the most mundane things and drive players to explore.
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