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Now Loading… The Video Game Canon!

Dan Hughes tackles the huge question of which games belong in the Video Game Canon and which don’t in this weekly series.

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Does Pikmin Belong in the Video Game Canon?

Does Olimar’s adventure in a bizarre world deserve to be remembered as one of gaming’s great stories?

By Matt McGill, 7 years ago April 3, 2018
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Does Skyrim Belong in the Video Game Canon?

7 years later, everyone is still talking about Skyrim. How has it changed the storytelling craft of video games?

By Richard Nguyen, 7 years ago April 3, 2018
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Does Minesweeper Belong in the Video Game Canon?

Explore the legacy of the time with the most criminally underappreciated story of all time.

By Dan Hughes, 7 years ago April 1, 2018
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Does Pong Belong in the Video Game Canon?

Pong, the mother of all video games, was the mother of all video-game storytelling, too.

By Skylar Cohen, 7 years ago April 1, 2018
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Does Sonic CD belong in the Video Game Canon?

The oft-forgotten game for an oft-forgotten system has more to it than meets the eye.

By Skylar Cohen, 7 years ago March 25, 2018
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Does Portal Belong in the Video Game Canon? (Featuring: PAX South!)

We asked PAX South: does Portal deserve a place among the "Great Books" of gaming?

By Dan Hughes, 7 years ago March 17, 2018
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Does Shovel Knight Belong in the Video Game Canon?

Yacht Club Games took to Kickstarter and taught developers how to make games that engage gamers' nostalgia without drowning them in it.

By Dan Hughes, 7 years ago March 2, 2018
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From PAX South 2018: Which Games Belong in the Video Game Canon?

Check out With a Terrible Fate's presentation on how to decide on the "Great Books" of video games.

By Aaron Suduiko, 7 years ago February 2, 2018
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Does Dead Rising Belong in the Video Game Canon?

It dropped you in a mall full of zombies. How did it influence the storytelling legacy of video games?

By Dan Hughes, 7 years ago January 30, 2018
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Does Grand Theft Auto III Belong in the Video Game Canon?

GTA is infamous for stirring debate about violence in gaming. What were its contributions to the storytelling of the medium?

By Chris Anhorn, 7 years ago January 9, 2018

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