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Rockstar might be planning an alien invasion in Grand Theft Auto Online
Conclusive video evidence. Maybe.
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Nostalgic photos from deep inside Soviet Russia’s Space Age rocket town
This might go without saying, but Soviet Russia was completely nuts about space. You can tell they were gung-ho in these images of the Baikonur cosmodrome, the largest operating launch facility in the world, rarely seen by Western eyes. In fact the entire city of Baikonur—located in Kazakhstan (now
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20 years of dungeon-diving leads iconic roguelike to unfamiliar realm: Steam Greenlight
ADOM isn’t only a roguelike—those terse tactical fantasy games of yore that don’t play nice. It’s an institution. It’s been under development for 20 years (including a 9 year hiatus), is considered one of the big 5 (roguelikes, not accounting firms), and after many moons of open development it’s cam
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Because Mario Kart 8 released on a Friday, here are the rules to the best Mario Kart drinking game
For millions of college freshmen still living in the dorm room, Mario Kart isn’t merely a family-friendly kart racer featuring banana peel bloopers and a road-hogging anthropomorphous fungi. It is also a great way to get shit-faced. So with Mario Kart 8 releasing today Wii U, right before the weeken
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The ridiculous winning words to yesterday’s spelling bee championship
The Scripps National Spelling Bee, a.k.a. the spelling bee of spelling bees, ended in a two-way tie yesterday, with the winning lads both misspelling some ridiculously obscure words: “corpsbruder” (a comrade) and “antegropelos” (waterproof leggings) respectively. However, they did manage to correctl
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New PBS Game/Show asks if the FPS is dying or ascending
The first-person shooter had a good run. Ever since players got a taste of the recoil on Doom’s shotgun, the genre has been firmly planted at the forefront of the industry. They’ve consistently been the biggest moneymakers, pushed technical boundaries, and ushered us into in the era of online play.
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These warped playing cards bring the glitch aesthetic to royal flushes
Glitches in videogames happen all the time. Just go read The Sims patch notes. But we usually don’t find them in physical games, like board games, and card games, and hackisack, and thankfully so, because that would mean we’re living in the Matrix while some hideous inter-dimensional parasites feed
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Brain massaging neural implants that treat PTSD are on their way
Neuroscientists at DARPA are dropping $26 million into developing a system of electrodes and chips to be implanted deep inside the brains of soldiers who are suffering from diseases like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. And I thought that’s what they made whiskey for! But seriously, this cybernetic s
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New Tangiers trailer is one part Deus Ex, one hundred parts surreal freakout
In case you need confirmation that Tangiers is still surreal and eerie, the new alpha trailer will remove that doubt. If anything the game has upped the level of horrifying, jet-black bizarreness. But as Kyle our intern justifiably asked as I was writing this, “Do we have any indication Tangiers wil
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What the heck could Device 6 devs’ enigmatic next game be?
We already know that influences can manifest themselves in strange ways in Simogo games, as evidenced in Device 6’s exegesis. So we should be careful about assuming too much from the inspiration collage for their new project, which appeared on their blog today. But taken at face value, it will invol
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Mother of God, it’s every airship level from Mario 3 at once
If your childhood was like my childhood, every Bullet Bill and spinning cannon from Super Mario Bros. 3‘s airship boss levels have been permanently burned into your memory. But that was then, and this is now. Because screen resolution has improved so drastically since the days of RF switches and ra
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How ironic is it that Watch Dog’s leaderboards are already hacked?
All it took was one day for the online multiplayer leaderboards for Watch Dogs to get hacked, perhaps not surprising for a game about using cyber-jacking abilities to crack into overreaching surveillance systems. As you see in the above screenshot, captured by Reddit user unsubdefaults, players suc