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There are god games and then there are god games. The Universim, which had its coming out party on Kickstarter the other day, isn’t content with laying down the law for a whistle stop of yokels. Even simulating the growth of a planet from human-less animal kingdoms to modern civilizations with airpl
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After ten years of werewolf attacks on urbane vampire covens, the little known but much-loved RPG Vampire: The Masquerade, Bloodlines has received a healthy update. Patch 9.0 (yes, 9.0!) adds a bountiful number of improvements, despite the fact that the developer Troika officially went out of busine
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Writing a book on the infinitely fascinating virtual world of EVE Online sounds slightly less daunting than writing a book on the history of human civilization or something. Still, one journalist is undertaking that difficult task and documenting the long history, backhanded politics, void nullsecs,
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With a name like Japanese role-playing games, you’d think the genre would be geographically bound to the land of soba noodles and adorable lucky cat shrines. But recently there have been a slew of games that play more or less exactly like JRPGs, but with one major difference: they’re not made in Jap
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Digital photos are great, except when they’re not. As this series of books containing digitally compressed copies of Romeo and Juliet show, Jpegs are gradually turning the Web into a sinkhole of blurry, bad photography. Because Jpegs are lossy, whenever you save or edit a digital photo in the forma
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Yeah, sure, drones are pilotless killing machines guided by unscrupulous soldiers from afar, but not all drone pilots have bad intentions. Take this dazzling footage of fireworks shot by a DJI Phantom operator from smack in the middle of the explosions. It should be noted that Phantoms aren’t the de
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As part of his visit to Japan, the President recently kicked around the soccer ball with Honda’s Asimo robot at a science museum in Tokyo. Let me tell you, there are few things stranger than seeing a very athletic Commander in Chief being subjected to the superior ball-handling skills of a humanoid
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Working alongside Cory Archangel, the artist best known for removing everything but the clouds from Super Mario Bros., a team of archivists and forensic experts has extracted early digital artwork of Andy Warhol from some corrupt disks. The art is what you’d expect to find Warhol doodling on his ho
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Things didn’t go so hot for the creator of Virtuix Omni when he appeared on “Shark Tank,” a reality show on ABC with an ensemble of filthy rich hosts known for chewing up and spitting out young optimistic entrepreneurs like expired caviar. But one of the rich guys, millionaire investor Mark Cuban, w
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As evidenced in this new interactive video of space cadets shooting bullet-spongy, albino mutants, Evolve is getting its multiplayer-online-battle-arena on. The 4-on-1 giant monster battling game from the makers of Left 4 Dead, coming to PCs and next-gen consoles later this year, could be a bellweth
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The developer of Cookie Clicker has created a highly verbose random game idea generator and it’s ridiculously good. Some of the gems we’ve been clicking on around the office include: -a god game where you explore hipsters through terrorism; -a social media game where you cook jewels to buy virtual
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A bullet point for Lethal League is “no weak shit,” and that’s the truth. The still shots aren’t much to look at, but the announcement trailer for this alt-sports game from Reptile Games is sizzling. It’s a solid minute of two characters slinging a ball or puck or other dangerous round thing at each