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I still believe in Destiny
Bungie’s epic is strange, beautiful, and infuriating.
Clayton Purdom
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Stop what you’re doing and watch this documentary on Japanese videogame music
Nobuo Uematsu, meet FlyLo.
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Ollie is the future of toys and also probably of terrifying cats
Smart toys, dumb cats.
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Harmonix envisions a 1990s futurescape in A City Sleeps
I envision a short-hair-era Angelina Jolie gliding in on a hoverboard, clad in Chemical Brothers-orange cargo pants, to deliver this idea to the minds of Harmonix Studios. Their surprise announcement of A City Sleeps is a gnarly throwback to all things ’90s: Treasure-style shooters, a character name
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Xenoblade Chronicles X will be five times bigger than its already-huge predecessor
To a small but very vocal group of people, 2012’s Xenoblade Chronicles was like an all-you-can-eat buffet in the middle of a desert. After the JRPG’s much-ululated decline in popularity and relevance, it was a sprawling, goofy, giving game, with vistas that just continued opening up, revealing new p
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Forget videogames: All-in-One devices may be the future of boardgames
Things get interesting at the intersection of tablet and tabletop.
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Titan Souls drops a new trailer on you, killing you instantly
We’ve been watching Titan Souls since it emerged from Ludum Dare last year, a slim, four-boss experience made in three days that nevertheless featured remarkably confident art direction, music, and pacing. (In fact, we gave it a Playlist nod as soon as it emerged.) It has since septupled in size, th
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On playing Diablo for a very long time
Breaking news: Diablo still good.
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Starve to death in the Canadian wilds next month with The Long Dark
The Long Dark is set to hit Steam Early Access on September 22. The game is being developed by Hinterland Games, which founder and creative director Raphael Van Lierop told us is situated in “an old mining town nestled at the foot of a mountain range” in Cumberland, British Columbia. The cold creeps
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Foot-tall Hotline Miami toys will presumably murder your pets
Imagine this thing stalking behind your houseplants, or peering from behind the claw-foot of your bathtub. Designers Dennaton games have partnered with ESC-TOY to create this toy (“doll,” I feel like some people would say) version of the protagonist of their 2012 instant-classic Hotline Miami. The c
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Flying high on the unfriendly skies of Hohokum
Like stumbling around with a hippie all day. In a good way?
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These shoes prove that in the future we will all dress like PlayStation 1 characters
United Nude has produced an experimental heeled shoe that can be 3D-printed and assembled at home by anyone aiming to look like a 1994 Yu Suzuki character. The low-poly footwear is produced in three pieces: first the blocky main portion, then a toe, then a heel portion. DIY cobblers then fit the thr