Hard Sell
Now what's it going to take to get you to take this new video game console home today?
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Star Wars Video Games Are Weird Right Now
Much like the franchise itself, it feels like Star Wars video games don't really know what sandbox they should be playing in. Can that change?
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Concord and the Quiet Doom of Indifference
As you read this, Sony is shutting down Concord mere weeks after it launched. Rob and Patrick to to unpack what happened and why.
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Five Questions About Gaming’s Future With a Video Game Analyst
Circana's Mat Piscatella tries to explain 2024's stumbles and why there's so much optimism about why next year might be better.
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The Streaming Era Needs More Friction
The cable TV era had plenty of downsides, but in a world without video stores, how else do stumble into a movie you didn't know you'd love?
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The Meditative Power of Irritation
The Game of Sisyphus is about moving a boulder up a hill, but for its developers—and by extension, its players—it's about so much more.
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Hey, Why Do Sports Look So Bad on TV?
Everyone's got this fancy 4K TVs, and yet, everything is so dang blurry.
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The Old Internet Was Better
Rob and Patrick reminisce about their earliest days online, from trying to figure out online multiplayer to the joys of pirating music.
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How Crow Country Captured the Survival Horror Energy of 1996
Resident Evil didn't know it was defining a genre. Crow Country, however, is trying to make sense of what to keep—and what to change—with hindsight.
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Why Remaster One of Gaming’s Most Impressive Misfires, The Thing?
Later this year, more people will finally get a chance to experience of one survival horror's overlooked gems.
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The Yard Days of Summer
Three long months have meant very different things to Rob and Patrick over the course of their lives.
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Power Fantasies and the End of Arkane Austin
Arkane Austin told stories about power and how we try to hold onto it. With Redfall, Redfall was the termination of that tale.
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Productive Citybuilding at the End of the World
As dark clouds draw nearer, Against the Storm keeps its eyes firmly on the bottom line.
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Old News from the Latest Disasters
If sunlight is the best disinfectant, why haven't years of shocking tell-all stories done more to improve game development processes?
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Subscriptions, Journalism, and You
None of us got into this line of work wanting to run a business, yet suddenly, here we are.