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Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith is an associate video producer at Salon. He has an unhealthy obsession with Mickey Mouse and video games, and regularly tweets about both.

Poor children from favela Complex Alemao dance to an Xbox game in a community center, on September 13, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images)

Video games come for the gym — but can they really work as a fitness regimen?

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Death Stranding, Manifold Garden, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Tetris 99 and Control (Kojima Productions, William Chyr Studio, Simogo, Nintendo, Remedy Entertainment)

Gaming is now an art for everyone: The best games of 2019

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Gameplay still from Control by Remedy Entertainment (Remedy Entertainment)

If Terry Gilliam and Franz Kafka teamed up on a video game, this would be it

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Google employees stage a walkout on November 1, 2018, in New York, over sexual harassment. (Getty/Bryan R. Smith)

As Riot Games employees walk out, discontent swirls among video game industry workers

Nicole Karlis, Matthew Smith
(Salon)

Time for video game makers to unionize

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NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 3: A person dressed as the Nintendo character Mario waves at a pop-up Nintendo venue in Madison Square Park, March 3, 2017 in New York City. The Nintendo Switch console goes on sale today and retails for 300 dollars. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) (Getty/Drew Angerer/Shutterstock/Salon)

How corporations are destroying video games

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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Screengrab Bethesda Softworks)

The antidote to “Nazi next door” profiles

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WATCH: The race is on to photograph endangered animals before they vanish

Matthew Smith
(Netflix)

Video games aren’t mindless — or heartless — entertainment

Matthew Smith
(Netflix)

LISTEN: Can playing video games make us more empathetic?

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Lady Dynamite starring Maria Bamford scheduled to stream on Netflix. Maria Bamford, shown. Photo: Doug Hyun/Netflix © (Netflix)

WATCH: Video games are more than violence simulators

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WATCH: These men aren’t pinball wizards, but they’ve mastered the arcade

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WATCH: Animal rights lawyer says zoos are solitary confinement for animals

Matthew Smith

WATCH: Nintendo Switch switches it up and critics are uncertain about its success

Matthew Smith

WATCH: Thoreau’s classic work “Walden” gets the video game treatment — yes, you heard that right

Matthew Smith

WATCH: NBA makes slam dunk with eSports deal

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WATCH: Sex on campus makes college kids feel inadequate

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WATCH: “Father of Pac-man” Masaya Nakamura dead at 91

Matthew Smith

WATCH: Post-inauguration Women’s March shows “a future that is really going women’s way”

Catie Perry, Matthew Smith

WATCH: President Obama commutes Chelsea Manning’s 35-year sentence before leaving office

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WATCH: Virtual reality can provide society with an impact that matters

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WATCH: Digital services should be treated with consumer awareness

Nadia Delisfort, Matthew Smith

WATCH: 5 reasons why Donald Trump won’t complete his first term

D. Watkins, Matthew Smith

WATCH: Stop asking clueless celebrities to comment on race relations

D. Watkins, Matthew Smith
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