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Liel Leibovitz

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May 22, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
Google Gets It: Video Games Are A Spectator Sport
Why buying Twitch, the ESPN of gaming, for a $1 billion makes perfect sense.
May 21, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
How Scrappy Little Sega Nearly Dethroned Nintendo
The battle that defined a generation
March 29, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
The Prophet in the Library
The previously undiscovered speech that launched Leonard Cohen's career
February 7, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
War Movies Used to be Big, Sprawling Things. What Happened?
The trend of small-minded war movies continues
September 24, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
10 Video Games That Made History for Their Amazing Graphics
June 21, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
The Video-Game Propaganda Wars
Authoritarian regimes are making games—and dissidents, too
March 27, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
The Tech Community Needs to Grow Up
How one woman's tweets exposed the industry's boys club
March 13, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
MoMA Has Mistaken Video Games for Art
The museum is putting 'Pac-Man' alongside Picasso. That misses the point.
March 1, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
Why an Experimental Video Game Is More Anticipated Than Sony's Playstation 4
February 21, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
Wodehouse Meets Star Wars
Ron Gilbert proves that stories matter in video games
February 5, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
China Is Not the Gaming Industry's Next Great Frontier
The People's Republic may lift its ban on consoles. It wouldn't be the boon that many expect.
January 29, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
Atari Is Not an Anomaly
The pioneering video game company is dead. Its successors are making the same mistakes.
January 10, 2013
Liel Leibovitz
State of Play: The Video-Game Burning in Connecticut Can Only Backfire
October 20, 2012
Liel Leibovitz
James Bond is Great in Books and Movies. Why is He So Mediocre in Video Games?
October 12, 2012
Liel Leibovitz
PETA vs. Pokémon: Does The Video Game Make Kids Cruel?
November 1, 2011
Liel Leibovitz
Artistic Judgment: How the Supreme Court Will Soon Decide How Much Access We Have to Art
October 19, 2010
Todd Gitlin, Liel Leibovitz
The Trials of Being a Chosen Nation

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