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News & Views

9/17/16-9/23/16

News & Views collects the week’s best writing about video games and puts them into one convenient place. Check the links below for stories about the limited scale

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Spotlight

"No One Criticized Bioshock Infinite Before!"

Cameron Kunzelman, This Cage is Worms

Worth Reading

Look through a Nintendo Game Counselor's guide, and image helping someone on the phone

Owen S. Good, Polygon

Better Than Black and White: One Man's Decade-Long Quest to Remake 'Metroid II'

David L. Craddock, VICE

Breaking With the Consensus (and Being OK With That)

Jeremy Parish, US Gamer

GG EZ: Blizzard's Sisyphean struggle to subdue the darkness within us all

Justin Groot, The Meta

In Defense Of Playing Bad Video Games

Patrick Klepek, VICE

Rogue co-creator: permadeath was never supposed to be 'about pain'

Bryant Francis, Gamasutra

The makers of No Man's Sky need to start talking again

Chistopher Livingston, PC Gamer