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As an indie game, The Stanley Parable is excellent. The writing is sarcastic and funny and the design is simple while not feeling like a throwaway or flash game. My only hangup would perhaps be the price which is a bit steep for a game you can complete in just a few hours.

Bethesda Softworks announced a couple days ago that it will release The Elder Scrolls Online Imperial Edition—a premium collector’s edition for the super highly-anticipated The Elder Scrolls Online. To accompany this announcement, Bethesda released a new holy-crap-amazing trailer entitled "The Arrival."

Vice Magazine recently did an interview with Zoe Quinn, designer of Depression Quest, outlining what happens during the process of getting a game green lighted on Steam. Some of the things she talks about are pretty shocking like getting phone calls of rape threats and being "raided" by male gamers (i.e. attacked en masse) on Twitter.

World of Warcraft completely took away an entire year of my life. But it gave the rest of it back to me.

Imagine playing an 8-bit Pulp Fiction on the NES!

Papers, Please isn’t a delightful romp. It’s something far more important than that. It’s a rare example of a game that just might make you reexamine yourself and the world around you. If you give it a chance, it will get under your skin.

As he plays The Novelist, this novelist thinks about everything he’s sacrificed, the options he didn't choose, the career choices he passed on, the friends and lovers he's pushed away, the people he may have hurt over the course of his own narrative. He worries. He wonders if these decisions were right.

Whenever I see a Hottest Video Game Characters post, it's inevitably always a female-only list, so in the interests of equal-opportunity ogling, I offer my own co-ed list, and because I've never been the ambitious sort there are only 10, not 50 or 100.

I still love occasionally playing some old school games but, for the most part, these days I much prefer to watch games versus actually playing them. Here are my reasons why, and maybe you'll find yourself agreeing with some of them.

Few recent games have so successfully nailed the feeling of creeping dread felt while being stalked as Sir, You Are Being Hunted. It's an an eerie, nerve-shredding experience.

Slot machines that feature pop culture references are becoming an ongoing trend with game developers. As such, many slots today are targeting the younger population by featuring arcade-like game plays and themes that feature popular TV shows, movies and comic book characters.

No matter how hard life gets there are always reasons to live, and at Pop Mythology we find that pop culture alone gives us more than enough reasons to endure. And so with 2014 coming on fast, here is our list of the stuff we anticipate most.

Personal computers have come a long way since they first became popular in the 80s. Take a trip down memory lane with this infographic about all the old greats: Commodore 64, Apple IIe, Atari, etc.

There’s one thing these imagined futures have in common: they all suck. So in this list of awful dystopias, we try to find the bright side of things. Mass infertility in "Children of Men"? Hey, no more worries about birth control!

A certain Character Alignment meme I recently ran into got me wondering about a possible genetic predisposition towards certain Character Alignments. Ok, let's collect data: RPG fans, what Character Alignment do you consider yourself to be in real life? And if you have a significant other, how about him/her? What about the kids?