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Equal parts Murder Mystery Party, Escape Room, and Parlour LARP, Jubensha are the Chinese gaming experiences that you've probably never heard of. (NYT) [more inside]
posted by forbiddencabinet on Jan 28, 2024 - 4 comments

Time Commanders is a technological game show which sends contestants back in time to reenact historical battles, with the aid of an unnamed real-time strategic combat simulation and 3D CGI visualisations provided by The Creative Assembly. [more inside]
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice on Sep 24, 2023 - 7 comments

People Make Games (previously) have just concluded a three-month investigation into the circumstances surrounding the departure of key personnel from Disco Elysium (previously) developer ZA/UM. The result is a two and a half hour long report.
posted by juv3nal on May 29, 2023 - 22 comments

If you turned on ESPN in November of 2022, you may well have seen something messed up: The Microsoft Excel World Championship [more inside]
posted by firechicago on Mar 16, 2023 - 10 comments

People Make Games investigates reports of workplace toxicity [YouTube] at Mountains, Fullbright, and Funomena. [TW: workplace toxicity/abuse] [more inside]
posted by forbiddencabinet on Mar 18, 2022 - 15 comments

Earlier this year, the People Make Games YouTube channel released an investigation (previously) into Roblox, detailing the shady methods (including literal child labor) that have, in part, made the company worth billions. Well, turns out there's more to report, so they're back with a new video, and it's even more disturbing than the first one.
posted by jklaiho on Dec 13, 2021 - 13 comments

Quintin Smith takes a look at how Roblox works.
posted by theodolite on Aug 19, 2021 - 35 comments