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E-Sports: More Than Just A Game

by Gabe Tappe

There are a few different ways you could make a hundred thousand dollars in just a couple of hours: Most of them we don't recommend. Or you could get really lucky and win the lottery. Or, perhaps you could play a popular video game to earn that cash.

Playing video games at competitive levels has become increasingly popular all around the world. And for young kids, making a living doing so is extremely appealing. But how feasible is this really? Student Gabe Tappe looked into it for this edition of Radio 101.

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Someone — either this wolf or you — is about to meet an unfortunate end in the survival simulator The Long Dark.

Reading The Game: The Long Dark

by Jason Sheehan

Our occasional series on storytelling in video games returns with a look at the survival simulator The Long Dark, which uses sound and silence to build a world not long into some terrible disaster.
In Inside, you play as a boy with no special powers — just the ability to run from the monsters around you.

Reading The Game: Inside

by Jason Sheehan

In this installment of our occasional series on storytelling in video games, we take a look at the dark puzzle platformer Inside. You play as a boy in a red jacket, with no special powers — so run!
This War of Mine

Reading The Game: This War Of Mine

by Jason Sheehan

Our occasional series on storytelling in video games returns with This War of Mine — a game about surviving during wartime that proved so wrenching, our critic couldn't bring himself to finish it.