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A scene from the video game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Amid pandemic, Animal Crossing gamers create dreamy ‘islands,’ travel and mingle with friendly (and really cute) animal neighbors

Arts, Culture & Media

As the coronavirus continues to upend the lives of people around the world, many are using the simulation game to live out experiences and routines disrupted by the pandemic — and for a sense of normalcy and connection.

Atari vs. Seurat: 8-Bit Masterpieces

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Hollywood Blockbusters Remade As 1980s Nintendo Games

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Donald Trump is mean, the alternate life of Pablo, and Biggy Pop win the internet this week. 

A Japanese Famicom (short for "Family Computer") video game console made by Nintendo.

Japanese parents experience nostalgia as Nintendo console enters school textbooks

Education

Besides the three R’s, schoolchildren in Japan are now getting a lesson in Super Mario.

Video game soundtracks getting symphonic treatment

Arts, Culture & Media

A lot of video game players can hum along to the original Super Mario Brothers theme song, but as time has passed and games have gotten more complex, so has their music. Now, a London orchestra has turned to video games for a new album.

Undercover with the world’s most notorious butterfly smuggler

Environment

Writer Jessica Speart uncovered a world of sex, betrayal and money in the underground crime world of illegal butterfly smugglers.