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Archives for September 2014

The biggest and best games we saw at Tokyo Game Show

See the near future of gaming from East and West

Sam Byford
Nine of the weirdest historical video games ever made

Assassinations, coups, cults, and riots

Molly Osberg
The Assassin’s Creed curriculum: can video games teach us history?

As one developer told me, games are actually perfectly suited to model complex systems with a number of moving parts — which sounds a lot like the conditions of history, where chance circumstances and actors collide.

Molly Osberg