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How Did Game Designers From the Netherlands Capture the Look and Feel of Small Town Oregon Better Than Any Other Video Game?

Get Inside: Nine Things to Do While Stuck at Home This Week

Watch the premiere of “Top Chef: Portland Edition,” leer at Sketchy People and eat Gabriel Rucker’s burger.

How a Local Company Is Saving Forgotten Video Games From the Dustbin of History

Since then, Nightdive Studios has gone on to procure the rights to restore similarly abandoned games, including including the Turok games, Doom 64, The 7th Guest, and the Harlan Ellison adaptation I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. The company is even developing a complete, from-the-ground-up remake of the first System Shock game.

You Can Wrestle as Damian Lillard in a New WWE Video Game

Damian Lillard loves three things: basketball, rap and 1990s pro-wrestling.

Damian Lillard Will Be the First Trail Blazer to Appear on the Cover of the NBA 2K Video Game Series

Blazers point guard Damian Lillard was revealed today as the first of three players to grace the cover of the upcoming edition of the popular NBA 2K series.

This Oregon-Based Vlogger Might Be the Closest Thing Video Games Have to Roger Ebert

Noah Caldwell-Gervais didn’t set out to make a career of reviewing video games. At first, he just needed something to take his mind off the job he did have at the time, working as a line cook at a Seattle pizzeria.

Play This: “Return of the Obra Dinn” Is a Ghostly Mystery Set in the 1800s With a Look Straight Out of the 1980s

While retro-themed games often call on the 16-bit sprites of classic RPGs or the cartoonish proportions of old mascot platformers, Lucas Pope’s Return of the Obra Dinn instead channels the dithered, 1-bit black-and-white graphics of ’80s computers like the Macintosh.

In “Shadow of the Colossus,” Long Stretches of Contemplative Solitude Are Broken Up by Battles With Giant Beasts

Rather than a dense landscape of towns and quest-givers, Fumito Ueda’s Shadow of the Colossus is a game filled with quiet reflection and punctuated by exhilarating combat.

The Hottest Video Game of the Moment Involves Doing Chores, Paying Your Mortgage and Conversing With Friends

Nintendo’s long-running Animal Crossing series of video games has been comforting players for nearly two decades, but its most recent entry couldn’t have been released at a better time. With so many people stuck at home, its cheerful approximation of nature and focus on interpersonal relationships has made it the perfect replacement for IRL socializing.

Portland Produced “Untitled Goose Game” Won Big at the Video Game Industry’s Equivalent of the Academy Awards

Despite the game’s popularity, it was an unexpected upset that such a small, simple game nabbed the top honor from a panel of industry gatekeepers.

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