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Valiant Hearts is a very French kind of war game
The bittersweet side of war.
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‘Metal Gear Solid 5’ to be funny again after the ultra-grim ‘Ground Zeroes,’ Kojima says
If you were concerned after playing the bleak, grizzled Ground Zeroes prequel that Metal Gear had lost all its quirky weirdness, you had good reason. Our writer Filipe Salgado did an admirable job broaching the issue in his review. But don’t be. According to a recent interview with creator Hideo Ko
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Terry Cavanagh’s new mobile game will obliterate you in 5 seconds or your money back
Well, at least it won’t cost you anything, because Super Graviton for iOS and Android is completely free. I’m sure that is all you need to hear before grabbing your phone and plucking the game, but allow me to briefly inform you about what you’re getting into while you’re anxiously waiting for it to
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Because Vice is Vice, they put together a Candy Crush Saga addiction fashion shoot
These photos of people decked out in hip urban outfits inspired by the runaway hit mobile game Candy Crush Saga are absolutely absurd—especially this one framed by candy cane stripes and gumdrops. Holly Falconer at Vice put together this absolutely fabulous retro photo shoot, because, well, Vice. Th
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No Man’s Sky’s virtual world is so big that you may never meet another player
You’ve probably heard the yada-yada about how No Man’s Sky uses procedural generation to create big boundless worlds and thought, hey, that’s pretty cool. But it’s even bigger than you can imagine. Listening to Sean Murray of Hello Games speak, it just may be as expansive as the physical universe it
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Whoa, I just heard a "die M-F" in a trailer for a Nintendo game
Granted that game is Tomonobu Itagaki’s Devil’s Third, picked up by the typically kid-friendly Japanese publisher after THQ’s corporate collapse, but this is not supposed to happen. After all, we’re talking about Nintendo—a company who yesterday announced games starring a crocheted green dinosaur, a
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You had me at beautiful underwater game from Journey’s art director
Under the sea.
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Playdead’s sophomore effort somehow looks even more sinister than Limbo
Where do you go after opening with a haunting, beautiful, universally-praised smash like Limbo? Brilliant initial offerings are always notoriously tough to follow up, but it looks like there will be no sophomore slump from Playdead. Judging by the hot and hyperbole-worthy debut trailer for Inside, t
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Grim Fandango lives again on PlayStation. Viva la Revolución indeed!
Who saw this one coming? A shiny, new remastered version of Grim Fandango—the legendary game to feature a tux-wearing, Pall Mall-dragging skull man—is on its way to PS4 and Vita. For the uninitiated, Grim Fandango is an old, famous adventure game (from 1998) that carries an air of mystique for a co
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This modder continues to blow away Skyrim’s lackluster artificial intelligence
We’ve written before about how the modder Ether Dynamics is outclassing Skyrim devs by giving foes with one-track-mind AI a broader variety of ways to bring the pain. As he rightly explains, “No one reminisces about the 10 skeletons they killed, because they’ll be just like every other skeleton they
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This week in VR demos: an Italian opera & flailing a tablet to flap the wings of a devious demon
While you’re waiting with baited breath for the big news out of Los Angeles, we thought why not catch up on the weekend’s crop of outrageous virtual reality demos, which seem destined to encompass every possible human and non-human endeavor. The first up is Senza Peso, a beautiful looking and sound
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Notch’s new one is either satire of Steam Early Access, or just a game about horses
Cliffhorse—Notch’s new horse-trotting sim where all you do is run over green hills—is perhaps a riveting work of irony ridiculing lazy, unfinished games on Steam Early Access. Or maybe the Minecraft creator just has a thing for horses walking sideways on cliffs. Either way, it’s a new game from Notc