It's Tool Time
As the weather changes, you begin to look at the world around you—the grass, the cement, everything—and wonder whether a trip to Ace Hardware is in order.
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Cairn Pits Players Against Their Greatest Enemy: Themselves
Towards the end of your journey, The Game Bakers push on every player's desire to beat the final boss. But what if you...just didn't?
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Who Cares About the Lore?
The creation and imperfect preservation of The Elder Scrolls' intentional incoherence.
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Little Black Boxes
Apple TV + Steam Deck + Switch + Switch 2 + PlayStation 5 + Xbox Series X = oh no. What have I done?
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Voyager - Across the Unknown Explores Darker, Colder Space
Clips shows and cold equations.
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Enclosing the Virtual Pitch
The consolidation of soccer video games, and the capture of a pastime.
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Travel Nightmares
Patrick and Rob share stressful stories—one from the present, one from the past—of trying to make it back into the U.S.
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Two Best Friends and a Naive Dream: Make a Cinematic Platformer
A fateful meeting at school and an evocative drawing would eventually lead two longtime friends to try something audacious. The result would be Planet of Lana.
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Cairn's Beautiful Search for a Mountaineer's Purpose
A conversation with The Game Bakers about life's unanswerable questions, making the sublime Cairn, and crafting a video game with supplément d’âme.
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Finding the Chicago Bears of F1
In which Patrick wonders whether it's time to get into high-speed racing, so he comes to Rob seeking advice in the only way he knows how.
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Love Eternal Is Fine If You Never Experience Its Terrifying Story
In a time where games are aiming for the widest possible audience, Love Eternal designer Toby Alden explains why they're making games another way.
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Edmund McMillen Is Still Nervous About Releasing a Video Game
McMillen has had about as critically and commercially successful a career as one could hope for. Yet insecurities come back with each release.
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Winter Hubris
Rob and Patrick share stories of hunkering down, almost giving yourself frostbite, and believing you're capable of driving in a snowstorm—and being very wrong.
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The Future of These Game Developers Rests on a Visa Application
A small indie group from New York, a mixture of creatives from China and the United States, need the U.S. government to believe they should stay here.
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Bad Vibes
While it can often feel like times have never been darker, bravery in Minneapolis shows a way forward.