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Obsidian is making a game where you play as a f*cking tank
You’ll shoot things, be a tank, etc.
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People play Europa Universalis IV and Crusader Kings 2 an average of 190 hours, or 136,800 Flappy Bird lives
In news that is probably only surprising to people who have not been sucked into their vortex of systems and emergent narratives and lusciously illustrated maps, Paradox Interactive is reporting that their flagship games Europa Universalis IV and Crusader Kings 2 tally an average of 190-hour playtim
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My Time in the Sh*t: An Unironic Earth Defense Force 2025 Review
“EDF! EDF!”
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Kill Screen presents the Future of Genre series
Deconstruction and democratization, ahoy.
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DEIOS, glitches and the death of videogames
A theory of noise.
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Bayonetta trailer shows off Bayonetta doing Bayonetta stuff
There is a new Bayonetta trailer which features everything you loved and/or hated about Bayonetta. Convoluted mythology? Enormous golden animals? Skittering loungey J-pop? Gross oversexualization? All here. The first game was surprisingly lengthy, particularly if you explored its higher difficulty s
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How The Vanishing of Ethan Carter took over the Internet with three .gifs
Adrian Chmielarz of the Astronauts tells us of unspeakable horrors.
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Why is Kill Screen running review scores again?
Short answer: it’s time.
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This week in glitches: go up north in GTA5, and witness the rapture in Assassin’s Creed 4
Keep open worlds weird.
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New trailer for The Division shows off a bunch of really boring stuff
Here’s the thing: The Division looks great. I mean that it literally looks very pretty and that it also looks like it might be a really interesting game. Ubisoft is pretty good at this stuff. The problem is that you’d never guess it from the trailer that dropped over the weekend, which carefully dod
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Here are a bunch of indie games apparently worth $1
A website called Shinyloot.com is spewing out indie games today for $1 apiece. These are, generally, of the XBLIG or Greenlight Gold level of artistic merit: either a jagged rip-off of a preexisting game or an attempt at something bigger marred by colored-pencil artwork. We bring this up not to shit
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Kick back and watch Mario take a trip into hallucinogenic hell
“I can’t make him look normal guys, something tells me it’s gonna get worse,” Vinesauce intones at the start of this corrupted Mario 64 video, and in this prediction he is correct. This thing belongs in the glitch hall of fame. Mario’s big beautiful face, at the outset, appears to have been frozen j