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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.

A Brief History of Oregon in Video Games

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A Portland Tech Company’s Weird New Video Game Has Become a Viral Sensation

Since its release two weeks ago, “Untitled Goose Game” has earned celeb endorsements from Chrissy Teigen and Blink-182 and inspired an endless stream of memes, artwork and mash-up videos based on its long-necked lead.

Retro Game Bar Feels like Home—Specifically, the Home of That One Friend Who Had Every Video Game System in Existence

So yeah, the concept of Retro Game Bar—the name is actually a sly reference to “RGB,” or “red, green, blue,” the analog video signal built into old-school game cartridges—isn’t exactly novel. It does, however, tweak the execution.

Portland Metal Band Red Fang Collaborated With Wieden + Kennedy To Create a Mobile Game Featuring Zombies and a Bearded Robot Skull

Inspired by 16-bit arcade games from the 90s, Red Fang: Headbang is a video game and music video for the band’s single “Antidote.” In the game, players navigate a Red Fang concert plagued by zombies with exploding heads, help some punks kick a car into pieces and fight comedian Brian Posehn in the form of a bearded robot skull that rises from the pit of hell.

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