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You are El Dorado

Also: Mickey Mouse says "Mario Kart," devs get diagnosed, and the Enterprise cranks up the stereo.

It hurts

Also: a nightmare about math, a forever-falling Banjo, and a cream meant for sippin'.

Egg limit

Also: weird hams, an overstuffed chatbot, and the fate of corecore.

Bowser's sourpuss bread

Also: feverish calculations, space travel agents, and the Chaos Emeralds.

Blue hair, blue tie

Also: weird gloop, pipe bombs, and Fox McLOUD.

Bear heaven

Also: suspicious maps, Jeff the Killer, and roguelike taxes.

Pig becomes sand

Also: AI Minecraft, Cave Story unfiction, and a pumpkin surprise.

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Shooting off screens: An interview with DVLSBLSH

by Dan Solberg 20+ years ago in magazine sidebars and web 1.0 galleries, the dominant visual representation of videogames was the screenshot. Capturing single instances of interactive media, screenshots were always a limited format for videogames PR, but that restricted context can also imbue screenshots with a level of

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Behind the art of SpongeBob

A conversation with one of the internet's most ardent SpongeBob archivists.

Pandora's mailbox

Also: teleporting bread, emo spies, and MTV2.

We oughta goup up

Also: a good maggot bit, going Thatcher-free, and the suffering of Minecraft Steve.

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Learning from Las Vegas’ Sphere

The Sphere is itself a symbol — but of what?