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Four individuals stand in front of a green, moss-covered wall with two dark rectangular openings. There is a boy, a girl, a woman, and a man holding a glowing cube.

‘A Minecraft Movie’ may craft something new

Sebastian Strawser
  •  
Sept. 24
Video Games
Screencap of two characters from Genshin Impact, a gacha anime-inspired video game

Genshin Impact’s Inazuman characters, landscape stay true to their Japanese origins

Sasha Wang
  •  
Oct. 7, 2021
Video Games
Screenshots of the application screens.

Stanford escape room with an outdoor twist

Kristel Tjandra
  •  
June 22, 2021
Arts & Life
(Graphic: Innersloth)

Newest ‘Among Us’ update makes for more exciting gameplay

Dax Duong
  •  
Nov. 19, 2020
Video Games
Five agents stand against a vivid red background. The word "Valorant" is plastered across them.

The best part about ‘Valorant’? Its potential.

Michael Espinosa
  •  
Sept. 1, 2020
Arts & Life
The logo for ‘Tick Tock: A Tale for Two,’ set against a black background (Photo: Other Tales Interactive)

‘Tick Tock: A Tale for Two’ (people who are separated because of COVID-19)

Dax Duong
  •  
May 31, 2020
Arts & Life
(Graphic: NOAH DEWALD/The Stanford Daily)

Games to play in quarantine: ‘Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup’

Noah DeWald
  •  
May 22, 2020
Arts & Life
'Fallout 4' follows the messianic Sole Survivor two hundred years after the fictional 'Great War' devastates the United States. (Photo: Bethesda Game Studios)

No good solution in ‘Fallout 4’

Noah Howard
  •  
May 7, 2020
Arts & Life
(Photo: Devolver Digital)

‘Gris’: Gray never looked so good

Omar Rafik El-Sabrout
  •  
May 3, 2020
Arts & Life
(Graphic: NOAH DEWALD/The Stanford Daily)

Games to play in quarantine: ‘Cave Story’

Noah DeWald
  •  
April 29, 2020
Arts & Life
Courtesy of Nintendo

The cult of ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’

Julie Fukunaga
  •  
April 27, 2020
Arts & Life
(Photo: Nintendo)

‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’: Enjoyment at its slowest

Max Smith
  •  
April 27, 2020
Arts & Life
(Photo: Procedural Arts)

Revisiting love in the age of social distancing: 2005’s ‘Facade’

Julie Fukunaga
  •  
April 5, 2020
Arts & Life
(Image: Supergiant Games)

‘Hades’ and the aesthetic of death

Omar Rafik El-Sabrout
  •  
Feb. 16, 2020
Arts & Life
Instead of studying for finals last quarter, I spent my dead week driving cargo across the Central Valley in a semi-truck. Such was “American Truck Simulator” (2016). (Image: Steam, SCS Software)

Big rigs and buttons: Unpacking ‘American Truck Simulator’

Julie Fukunaga
  •  
Feb. 16, 2020
Arts & Life
“P.T.” unfolds in a series of puzzles, some obtuse, others clever, each nightmare-inducing. (Photo: Konami)

‘P.T.’: A chilling gaming experience

Noah Howard
  •  
Feb. 5, 2020
Arts & Life
Courtesy of 2K

‘BioShock’: A retrospective

Omar Rafik El-Sabrout
  •  
Jan. 28, 2020
Arts & Life
(Courtesy of Cassie McQuater)

A mind-bending journey into ‘Black Room’

Julie Fukunaga
  •  
Jan. 22, 2020
Arts & Life
‘The White Door’ is the latest game created by the developers behind Rusty Lake, and the first by publisher Second Maze. (Courtesy of Rusty Lake)

Entering ‘The White Door,’ the latest from Rusty Lake developers

Dax Duong
  •  
Jan. 14, 2020
The Stanford Daily

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