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The Narrative Pastiche of Games

Rewind to Advance: Jordan Mechner’s Games with Time

The Assassins’ Politics

Horror in Video Games: There’s Seeing — and Then There’s Realizing What You’re Seeing

Civil Violence in the Old West: ‘Red Dead Redemption’

The Best Flash Games of 2010

How Can I Be Me?: The Gamer’s Role in Interactive Fiction

Shattered Horrors: Fragmented Perspectives in ‘Fatal Frame 2’

Mountains of Men: The Mythology of the Male Body in Video Games

Morality in Mystery Dungeon: ‘Shiren the Wanderer’

Father’s Day Is Over, But Daddy Issues Remain in ‘Bioshock 2’ and ‘Red Dead Redemption’

My Own Private Architecture