Young women cosplay as the main characters of the mobile game Arena of Valor in Tianjin, China, in October. More than half the game's players in China are female. Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
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In Inside, you play as a boy with no special powers — just the ability to run from the monsters around you. Playdead Studios hide caption
The big-budget video game can be a powerful medium for telling scary stories. To wit: the new survival horror game The Evil Within 2, in which reality itself is open to interpretation. Courtesy of Bethesda Softworks hide caption
In Paintball Hero, one of the latest video games centered on social and political issues, players rescue pigs, chickens and cows in a slaughterhouse. PETA hide caption
The mobile app Pokémon Go has lost some of its original steam, one year into its tenure on the gaming charts. Ruby Wallau/NPR hide caption
Monster-hunter Geralt of Rivia and his adopted daughter Ciri are at the center of a complex story in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. CD Projekt Red hide caption
Life in 16 bits — complete with chickens and monsters — in Stardew Valley. ConcernedApe hide caption
In Bioshock Infinite, a simple premise — a guy, a girl, a gun — animates a mind-bending story. Courtesy of Ghost Story Games hide caption
Chris Schranck, wearing his Futureman outfit, says what draws fans is his personality and the community he built around his Twitch stream. Stephan Bisaha/NPR hide caption
Members of the Ohio State team practice for an upcoming Big Ten League tournament for League of Legends. Gabriel Rosenberg for NPR hide caption
Writer and critic Jason Sheehan calls Red Dead Redemption his favorite Western of all time — surpassing even The Outlaw Josey Wales. Courtesy of Rockstar Games hide caption
Josuhe Pagliery grew up playing video games on consoles he says were not common in Cuba. Those games helped inspire him to develop Savior, Cuba's first independent video game. Greg Allen/NPR hide caption
Lincoln Clay, the lead character in Mafia III, is a protagonist rarely featured by the gaming industry. Courtesy of 2K Games hide caption
The Last of Us is as much about the bonds between Joel and his surrogate daughter Ellie as it is about their post-fungal-apocalypse world. Sony/Naughty Dog hide caption
A woman tries on Google's virtual reality device "Daydream View" after the opening of Google's pop-up store in New York on October 20, 2016. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Even In A Virtual World, The Harsh Reality Of Sexual Harassment Persists
Thousands will watch the action as two teams duel with their fantasy characters and large swords during the League of Legends World Championship Finals in Los Angeles this weekend. Viewers will watch on large screens like they did during Paris Game Week. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Jake Middleton (right) coaches his brother, Justin, on the cobra pose, which he says can help gamers improve their posture. Alex Smith/KCUR hide caption
A screenshot from the video game Fallout 3 of a character standing near a Nuka-Cola machine. Soda machines appear in video games a lot more frequently than Jess Morrissette expected, so he decided to document this phenomenon. @decafjedi/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
People play Pokémon Go in New York City on July 25. The New York governor's ban on playing the game will apply to nearly 3,000 sex offenders currently on parole. Mike Coppola/Getty Images hide caption
South Korean voice actress Kim Jayeon tweeted this image, spurring her country's version of Gamergate. Courtesy of Kim Jayeon hide caption
A Pokémon is found by a Pokémon Go player at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. Businesses are looking for ways to profit from the 65 million Pokémon Go users in the United States alone. Alan Diaz/AP hide caption
In the new Pokémon Go app, players can use their smart phone to see, battle, and catch the monsters in their world. The app will be released to the public sometime in July. Courtesy of Niantic Labs hide caption
An attendant wearing an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset demonstrates a glove with a Yamaha Corp. rubber-like sensor at the Wearable Expo in Tokyo, on Jan. 13. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption