The identity one adopts in massively multiplayer games is a ripe target for psychological warfare

An interview with Twine-game designer Porpentine about interactive fiction, “trash spinning,” and how to destroy the “completely unredeemable” games culture

Eric Berne’s Games People Play offers a blueprint for making passive-aggressive manipulation into compulsive fun

The Kuwaiti musician Fatima Al Qadiri composes possible themes for the Gulf War video game of her childhood

If video games want cultural legitimacy, designers will have to concede it's not all about fun

Social gaming and cloud computing are powerful alibis for always-on digital-rights management, which makes players into tenants

Games are about accepting arbitrary authority, but play is about the Satanic refusal of rules, seeking limits beyond limits

BioShock Infinite promises radical possibility but strips players of meaningful agency