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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Aug 3, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Guardian
Top 1K sites
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Jul 21, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Nicole Carpenter

    The end of the world: how players mourn the death of their favourite online games (opens the original)

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    Online multiplayer changed the trajectory of games, but the cost of keeping servers running means every virtual world is doomed to die – sooner or later Nevan Hagarty had an idea. If he and other Halo 3 players stayed online the night of 13 January 2022, they could delay the impending server shutdown. Players knew this was coming: it had happened to Halo 2 when its Xbox Live servers were turned off in 2010, and a group managed to stay logged into the multiplayer servers for weeks. And so, player

  2. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Nicole Carpenter

    The end of the world: how players mourn the death of their favourite online games - AOL (opens the original)

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    Nevan Hagarty had an idea. If he and other Halo 3 players stayed online the night of 13 January 2022, they could delay the impending server shutdown. Players knew this was coming: it had happened to Halo 2when its Xbox Live servers were turned off in 2010, and a group managed to stay logged into the multiplayer servers for weeks. And so, players gathered online before the server shutdown to pay homage and to mourn the game they loved so dearly. And, maybe, to keep it online for a little longer.

  3. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Nicole Carpenter

    Bub – living an artist’s dreams and dreads in New York (opens the original)

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    An autobiographical game about the devastating effects of chronic illness on an artist’s creative life gives players the chance to slow the pace right down Bub does not look like a traditional video game. Artist and stop-motion animator Case Jernigan spends hours, days, months in his studio drawing, painting and delicately cutting out pieces of collected paper, while coder and gameplay designer Todd Anderson builds scripts and physics simulations to make them into a game. In Bub, you play thro

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