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Teenage Kicks

Game makers' adolescent imaginations are making videogames a cultural backwater, says Steven Poole.
February 22, 2010

Satisficing Guaranteed

Why is Noby Noby Boy Steven Poole's best game of 2009? Because you've nothing else to do in it than be creative.
January 25, 2010

Against The Grain

Steven Poole explores the notion that videogames are decadent, and why this might be impeding their future.
December 23, 2009

Jacks Of Both Trades

If games and movies don't develop some mutual respect, all we can expect are films that are really bad action games and games that are really bad films, says Steven Poole.
November 16, 2009

City Of Wanderers

Steven Poole nurses a coffee at a street cafe and wonders whether there ever was such a thing as an open world.
September 30, 2009

Survival Horror Syndrome

Steven Poole on the notion that videogames' tendency to teach players to always strike the first blow could help reinforce contemporary belief in ‘preventative’ atrocities.
September 15, 2009

The Path To Art

Challenging interactive folktale or pretentious, FMV-loaded hogwash? Steven Poole ponders both approaches to The Path.
August 24, 2009

The Will To Underpower

Steven Poole explores the potential for videogames to increase players' emotional engagement by balancing impotency with total power.
August 10, 2009

Compromising positions

Steven Poole plays PeaceMaker and discovers that its greatest message is about controlling player control.
July 14, 2009

Stretch Panic

Steven Poole ties himself in knots over Noby Noby Boy’s gleefully tactile wriggling out of being a game.
June 16, 2009
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