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Turn-based tactics won the decade
Superior tactics It found its groove again and it won't be stopped.
Superior tactics It found its groove again and it won't be stopped.
To Boldly Go Katia Sae never wanted to be famous, but you don't go on a galactic tour without making some friends and enemies along the way.
Power Fantasy How a lore book filled with lies tricked players into no-lifing their way to level 999 for no reward.
Origins Square, Enix, and Game Arts: 3 origin stories from Japan's PC boom, from inside the Game Preservation Society's archive.
Photos "That belongs in a museum!"
Handbook How to raise your kids on PC games, and understand the content and communities they'll be exposed to.
Big in China MMOs, Counter-Strike clones, and a Final Fantasy-esque RPG series—China's games industry is more diverse than you might think.
Hanging Out My strange journey to the EVE fan convention held in some random player's house.
Parent Trap We talk to experts and psychologists about what playing Fortnite does to young brains.
MMNO A journey into the dark underbelly of Steam delivers us to the nightmarish world of Otherland.
Rez Pls As the genre becomes set in its ways, a few holdouts on r/mmorpg honor the past and predict a bleak future.
Members only Modders and developers tell us the good, bad, and ugly of adding dongs to games.
Nü War There's no shortage of Warhammer games, but none quite like Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
G-UNIT The Night School founder tells us his wild licensed games origin story.
Dark future Actually, it turns out there is more than just war in the grim darkness of the far future.
de_ad Set inside the last de_dust2 server on Earth, Dustnet explores what it means for multiplayer games to die.
SINISTER STRIKE From Team Fortress backstabs to Michael Myers sneak attacks, these are the knives that make gaming a little more visceral.