A few weeks ago, a bipartisan coalition of senators proposed a law “to regulate certain pay-to-win microtransactions and sales of loot boxes in ...

Last week I talked about what sort of hardware changes the industry went through between 2009 and today. This week I want to ...

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As one of Valve Software’s flagship game series, Counter-Strike is well known for its blend of strategic action and realistic gunplay. Global Offensive, ...

[folder_nav] I had a long salty post ready about Counter-Strike‘s shooting mechanics and how every gun except the dreaded AWP seems to be ...

Gamers of a certain age may remember the infamous Sonic the Hedgehog cheat code that let you meddle with the very fabric of ...

My students shuffle into my Counter-Strike level design course here at UC Berkeley. Today we’re play-testing a student’s final project, the culmination of ...

You know the story: You’re playing a couple of rounds of your favorite online shooter to blow off some steam after work when ...

We live in an era dominated by the sheer amount of cultural ephemera that passes in and out of our lives. Thirty years ...

Televised gaming in the West, in its current form, is broken. Dressed up in the ill-fitting clothes of existing formats and shuffled nervously ...

Another WorldImagine an auditorium filled with eager fans, many of them young women holding up signs and screaming themselves hoarse. Huge screens display ...

Professional gaming isn’t exactly a spectator sport. People who don’t “get” gaming aren’t interested, and the seriousness of tournaments can turn off casual ...