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Dying Is a Form of Education

On Elden Ring

Where Numbers Become Flesh

From Gamelife, by Michael Clune, out this month from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Clune is also the author of White Out, an account of his heroin addiction.

War Games

by Brian Turner,

By Brian Turner, from My Life as a Foreign Country, out next month from W. W. Norton. Turner, a veteran of the Iraq war, is the author of two books…

The Glitch in the Video-Game Graveyard

by Joshua Wheeler,

An anthropological dispatch from the landfill dig to unearth Atari’s E.T.

Single-player mode

by Tracy Fullerton,

The perfect game

by Joshuah Bearman,

Five years with the master of Pac-Man

God mode

by Luke Mitchell,

Multi-prayer game

by Harper’s Staff,

Joystick jihad