Matter Presents:

MONDAY

LEVEL 1: GO!

Introduction

Welcome to The New York Review Of Video Games

By Chris Suellentrop

Essay

Achievement Points, You Can’t Take ‘Em With You

By Simon Parkin

Review

EA Sports UFC:
My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable

By Kerry Howley

TUESDAY

FUTURE OF FICTION

Review

Shadow of Mordor: Tolkien meets Arkham City meets Hamlet

By Ken Levine

Review

Broken Age: I Had Strings, But Now I’m Free…

By Laura Miller

WEDNESDAY

HIGH SCORES

Podcast

What Is the Best Video Game of All Time?

By Idle Thumbs

Essay

Five Feminist Moments in the History of Video Games

By Anita Sarkeesian
and Carolyn Petit

Visual Essay

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gamer

By Tim McDonagh, Jennifer Daniel, Mimi Leung, and more.

THURSDAY

ADAPTATIONS

Review

The Evil Within and Alien: Isolation

By Steve Gaynor

Review

The Walking Dead: A Gut-wrenching, exercise in survivor’s guilt.

By Virginia Heffernan

Review

South Park: The Stick of Truth will make you funny.

By Mike Drucker

FRIDAY

CONTINUE?

Essay

Winning Isn’t Everything

By Ian Bogost

Review

Kim Kardashian: Hollywood

By Rachel Syme

Logo typography by Kyle Read

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