Minecraft's Legendary Creepers Don't Fit The Game's Design Philosophy Today, Mojang Concedes

As anyone who has played even a little Minecraft can tell you with vitriol, the Creeper’s entire purpose in the game is to ...
Game Rant

Why YouTube Game Streamers Are Flocking Back to Twitch

Jack Peachey is a features writer who's worked at Dualshockers and Game Rant. An animation nerd, his favourite games don't have a genre in common as much as they all have pretty pictures. When not ...
The New Yorker

The Game Designer Playing Through His Own Psyche

A little more than a decade ago, the video-game designer Davey Wreden experienced a crippling success. In October, 2013, he and a collaborator, William Pugh, released the Stanley Parable HD, a ...
9to5google

YouTube Playables seeing wider availability, 75+ games now offered

Following initial testing last year, YouTube is expanding its “Playables” on Android, iOS, and the web. Playables are free lightweight games that can be accessed inside YouTube on the mobile apps and ...
TheWrap

YouTube’s Record-Setting NFL Game Has a Big Asterisk

Kansas City Chiefs vs. Los Angeles Chargers game (Photo Credit: Getty Images) The NFL’s latest experiment with a new platform has paid off, with YouTube’s São Paulo-based Kansas City Chiefs vs. the ...
The New Yorker

The Personal, Political Art of Board-Game Design

Amabel Holland, a forty-one-year-old board-game designer from Dearborn, Michigan, believes that a chance discovery at a comic-book store saved her life. In 2010, she wandered into the shop with her ...