Nick Martens, Kevin Nguyen & Elizabeth Simins The most impressive videogame of the year is also the most flawed.

Nathan Pensky “The question about Snowden is less, ‘Is he right?’ than ‘Who is this guy?’”

Hallie Bateman “I will not, under any circumstances, be leaving for Camp Pokomoonshine tomorrow.”

Darryl Campbell What does it mean to own a car these days?

Benjamin Gabriel Mainichi looks like a throwback role-playing game but plays like an avant-garde experiment of how we express and internalize our feelings.

Sara Lautman “Freestyle overhand swimming, the most popular style of swimming, was so unwieldy and dumb for so long.”

Nick Martens This might be the most unassuming, strangely delightful role-playing game ever.

The Bureau Editors This week we like tech blogs, summer jams, and literature in our inbox.

Ryan Sartor A quiz just in time for the NBA Finals.

Alex Schmidt I think it’s time we talk about what happens when a croissant and a doughnut love each other very much.

Matt Flagg After starring in a viral “fail” video, reflections on a brush with anonymous, embarrassing internet fame.

Benjamin Woodard In the films Cosmopolis and Holy Motors, David Cronenberg and Leos Carax reinvent the metaphor of the road.

Elizabeth Simins The conclusion to Elizabeth Simins’s comics series about coming out as a female gamer.

Thomas Abildgaard Traveling in Southeast Asia reveals a problematic desire for white skin.

Brad Jonas “Notification: you are unimportant.”

Nick Martens Starseed Pilgrim turns a repetitive, frustrating exercise into a game of discovery and wonder.

The Bureau Staff The Bureau Staff and friends have many feelings about the return of the much-beloved sitcom.

Mike Zuckerman A eulogy for no one’s favorite email service.

Kevin Nguyen & Nick Martens Is the new Daft Punk record the ultimate internet album?

Hallie Bateman A quick chat with one of the universe’s brighter galaxies.

Nick Martens “Perhaps some psychologist can tell me why it feels so good to inhabit a colossal cosmic crustacean and wreak havoc across the solar system. But I don’t particularly care why.”

Matt Seidel Presenting new research from the most obstinately intolerant scholars of birds.

The Bureau Editors This week: eating chocolate, mediocre genre TV, radio plays, and absurdist 3D animation.

Kevin Nguyen “Indie music never belonged to anyone, but at least in the early ’00s, it was easier to pretend it did.”

Nathan Pensky “Watching the videos Bynes posts on her Twitter doesn’t feel like watching someone giving a poor performance. It feels like watching someone lose her mind.”

Brad Jonas So this is growing up.

Avery Edison “The transgender community is all about hierarchies: how well you pass, how much surgery you’ve had, how much strife you’ve been through. The age you came out at is just another ladder to count rungs on.”

Sam Weiner An advice columnist goes to desperate lengths to reconnect with an ex-girlfriend.

Bill Brown “The mustache cop had the idea that I was a suicidal drug smuggling weirdo on a dark mission to Canada.”

Jeannette Langmead & Graham Clark A comic about David Shatraw, the voice of Michelangelo in the 1990 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles touring show.