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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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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
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Something tells me this isn’t Frank Herbert’s official explanation for how the Pain Box in Dune works; but nevertheless, here’s a method for building your very own ad hoc phantom pain container, perfect for coaxing your lily-livered friends and children to sticking their trembling hand into. The en
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It’s more straightforward than you might think.
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Alan Turing: check and mate. This past weekend at the 2014 Turing Test in London, a group of judges were fooled into thinking that a chatbot was in fact a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Goostman, proof computers are getting smarter or humans are getting dumber. Experts are hailing the genuinely believ
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The Queen has proposed a stern lifetime sentence for cyber-attackers within the British state, so don’t get any bright ideas from game sessions of Watch Dogs, Englanders. In a recent speech, the sovereign revealed a crime bill that hackers whose digital troublemaking results in “loss of life, seriou
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An island unto himself.
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What’s the deal with Goat Simulator? (Hmm… it seems my awesome Seinfeld impression doesn’t come across very well in typing.) But think about it. This silly game about goats which has no point, aside from being funny, does some seriously inspired stuff with videogame slapstick. Namely, there are no
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Wrangling and cajoling a group of friends to your small apartment’s kitchen will no longer be an impediment to playing Twilight Struggle, because the digital edition of that great Cold War card and dice game is already fully funded on Kickstarter. I know it’s a can of worms to say anything is the “b
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Seriously. Look at this game. It is just gorgeous. Well, except for that scene with the guy (Ethan, maybe?) getting clubbed over the head with a lead pipe. But aside from that, incredibly pretty. We’ve written before about how the devs of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter are pioneering a graphical tec
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This camouflage drone made of melted Milka chocolate bars sure looks delicious. I’ve been craving chocolate all day. Death and invasion of my privacy from above—eh, not so much. The most impressive part of this hovering aircraft is that it actually flies without melting into sweet liquid candy. “Ch
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The introductory chapter to Republique—which plays like a sort of culturally eloquent, mobile take on Metal Gear—is on sale June 5 through 12. And by on sale we mean: free. You can read our review of it here, and episode 2 here. Clearly, there are plenty of reasons for the love. It features a belie