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  • Real-Life Spies Troll Each Other Over Wordle

    Real-Life Spies Troll Each Other Over Wordle

    Wordle continues its gentle taking over of the world. In the days following the surprise announcement that the New York Times is buying the game for at least a million bucks, the head of the UK secret intelligence service, MI6, tweeted complaining about people’s results from the word game appearing on Twitter timelines. He was…


  • Talking MMORPGs, From Ultima Online To Amazon’s New World

    Talking MMORPGs, From Ultima Online To Amazon’s New World

    For nearly three and a half decades, massively multiplayer online role-playing game fans have been wandering the digital wilderness, chopping down trees, hunting for boars, and getting murdered by other players while doing so. We did it in Ultima Online back in 1997, and we’re doing it in Amazon’s new MMORPG today. What’s so appealing…


  • What Deathloop Gets Right And Wrong About Time Loops

    What Deathloop Gets Right And Wrong About Time Loops

    Deathloop is the latest game to play around with time but it’s far from the only one. This summer’s divisive indie game 12 Minutes also centered around a repeating time loop, as have many other games, ranging from the star-charting Outer Wilds to the Nintendo 64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. But which…