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Steve Is Minecraft Now: How a Silent Default Skin Became the Franchise's Biggest Star
Minecraft's default avatar had no dialogue and no backstory. Then Jack Black played him, a 34-second song charted, and a sequel got the title Squared.

Mike Tomlin's 12-Year Minecraft City: Inside the Steelers Coach's Secret Creative Obsession
Mike Tomlin's 12-Year Minecraft City: Inside the Steelers Coach's Secret Creative Obsession For 19 seasons, Mike Tomlin was the picture of sideline stoicism. The coach who never had a losing season....

GTA 5 Mod Adds 235 Destructible Flock Cameras - And It's a Protest You Can Play
This GTA 5 Mod Turns Los Santos Into a Surveillance Protest You Can Play Morry Kolman has planted 235 surveillance cameras across Los Santos. Then he gave players the tools to destroy every one of...

Level-5's Quirky Pay Raise Program: Pass a Quiz on the Company's Games, Get a Significant Salary Bump
The Quiz: How It Works and Who Can Benefit The "knowledge quiz" covers Level-5's entire game library, stretching from the puzzle-box adventures of Professor Layton to the monster-collecting world of...

The Women Behind Kratos: How Female Developers Shaped God of War's Most Notorious Mini-Games
The Revelation: A New Perspective on Development The bombshell was dropped by Alanah Pearce, a writer who worked at Santa Monica Studio during the development of God of War (2018). Speaking on her...