The Videogames WIRED Is Playing While Staying Home

We live in exceedingly strange and challenging times. —Jeffrey Van Camp The Witcher 3 Mine’s not exactly a solid game suggestion but rather a mode of playing: Why play alone when you can play together? —Megan Greenwell Magic Arena Competitive multiplayer games hold my attention more consistently than single-player ones, so I’ve been getting deeper into Magic Arena, the newest Magic: The Gathering videogame. It’s easy to play Magic Arena like a mobile game, but it’s got a great social aspect too: Over the weekend, five friends and I set up a small, casual online tournament over Discord. It’s a game about the vastness of space, so typically when you’re playing as a single bipedal organism navigating an endless void looking for resources, it can be a lonely experience.