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Tag: gaming
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A note on this week’s special issue
Everything I need to know about coping with quarantine I learned from playing solitaire.
Posted inArts & Culture
Reviews by a gamer(s)
A look at the good, bad, and ugly games we played before computers.
Posted inArts & Culture
Cybersex and sex work in Second Life
The virtual world is still a sanctuary for folks leaning into their sexual fantasies.
Posted inArts & Culture
Otherworld Theatre unites gamers and theater nerds
With VALHA11A, they’ve created their first online LARP.
Posted inMusic
Where indie music meets indie gaming
Chicago video-game composers talk about how they found their way into this strange and difficult business.
Posted inArts & Culture
Interview with a gamer
In which my 11-year-old friend George takes a break from staring at his computer and consents to an interview.
Posted inArts & Culture
Video games level up to high art—and Chicago artist William Chyr is at the controls
The artist and polymath is using PlayStation as the canvas for his magnum opus, Manifold Garden.
Posted inBlogs
A local guy created a smartphone game that wants you to look up, not down
Cartegram wants to bring urban explorers together.
Posted inNews & Politics
The Way of Dr. Tae
This disillusioned physics professor couldn’t fix the education system—so he fixed a Tony Hawk video game instead.
Posted inBlogs
So many games, so little time
Fantasy Congress, Chicago regional quiz, and real human drama. Well, sorta real.
Posted inBlogs
World of Malecraft
The seven million players of “World of Warcraft” have strong (and problematic) opinions about gender.