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Home » Nintendo

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Posted inArts & Culture

The Wild World of Animal Crossing

by Taryn Allen May 26, 2020August 18, 2021

What is the appeal of the game that’s taking the world by storm?

Posted inCity Life

A trippy trip back in time

by Molly Harris January 7, 2020August 18, 2021

Death by Toys specializes in repurposed action figures, 80s nostalgia, and a bestselling empty box you have to see to believe.

Posted inArts & Culture

The video game’s the thing in Super Richard World III

by KT Hawbaker July 31, 2019August 18, 2021

Otherworld Theatre’s Stupid Shakespeare Company makes a low-budget, high-laugh debut.

Posted inBlogs

Famous feline Lil’ Bub gets her own arcade game—built by Chicago’s Logan Arcade

by Ryan Smith May 23, 2018August 18, 2021

Logan Arcade owner Jim Zespy collaborated with the Internet-famous cat’s owner, Mike Bridavsky, to create the game.

Posted inBlogs

Nintendo’s new console Switch works best when it takes the video out of video games

by Ryan Smith February 22, 2017August 18, 2021

The greatest trick of Nintendo’s new console is 1-2-Switch, a game that minimizes screens and focuses on face-to-face human interaction.

Posted inArts & Culture

Video games level up to high art—and Chicago artist William Chyr is at the controls

by Ryan Smith August 10, 2016August 18, 2021

The artist and polymath is using PlayStation as the canvas for his magnum opus, Manifold Garden.

Posted inArts & Culture

Apokélypse now?

by Ryan Smith July 26, 2016August 18, 2021

Why fears about the Pokémon Go phenomenon are overblown

Posted inArts & Culture

Apokélypse now?

by Ryan Smith July 25, 2016August 18, 2021

The Pokémon Go phenomenon has given rise to the latest moral panic.

Posted inBlogs

Superdog, Catwoman, and other sightings at Wizard World Comic Con

by Ryan Smith August 26, 2015August 18, 2021

As always, the costumed crowd was the real draw at this year’s con.

Posted inBlogs

12 O’Clock Track: The hyperchiptune of Anamanaguchi’s ‘John Hughes’

by Kevin Warwick August 6, 2014August 18, 2021

Today’s 12 O’Clock Track, “John Hughes,” comes from chiptune band Anamanaguchi.

Art from the video game Botanicula by Jaromír Plachý and Amanita Design
Posted inArts & Culture

Gaming and art collide at VGA Gallery

by Jake Malooley August 5, 2014August 18, 2021

VGA Gallery furthers the case for the artistic merit of video games.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Fri 11/22: American Promise, Louder Than a Bomb University, and The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses

by Jillian Sandler November 22, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, November 22

Posted inBlogs

“Every boy will walk tall, when he wears a holster and pistol . . .”

by Kevin Warwick January 20, 2012August 19, 2021

A look at toy guns, both before and after the modifications were enforced

Posted inNews & Politics

God Smiles on Ninjatown

by Jessica Hopper February 18, 2010August 19, 2021

The story of Shawnimals, an unlikely recession beater

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