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How Ellie’s pathfinding made you love her
Well, that and the horseback scene.
Jason Johnson
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The fascinating story AI behind Crusader Kings 2’s dark chain of events
“LIFE IS A DARK CHAIN OF EVENTS.”
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Gone Home’s Steve Gaynor: "Being a gamer has a stigma to it."
This is something we’ve known forever, but the creator of Gone Home drove the point home and perhaps put the nail in the coffin. Talking today about narrative design, Gaynor made a subtle, but piercing call. In particular he was lamenting the fact that people who don’t play games but wanted to play
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Child of Light aims to make the JRPG the way it always should’ve been: Gorgeous
Concept art grows up.
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This gun creates a wormhole between you and your friend’s apartment
At an event like Game Developers Conference, it’s easy to get your various incarnations of reality scrambled. Virtual reality has a bigger presence than ever this year, and there’s always augmented reality looming, but there are also the non-categorizable forms: projects that blur the boundaries bet
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The March Madness of animated gif should prove spectacular
It’s mid-March, and that can only mean one thing: a flurry of other non-related contests using brackets in imitation of March Madness. T.GIF animation tourney, held March 22 through April 7, is one such tournament, and it’s amazing for a couple of reasons. One, because the name T.GIF hadn’t been tak
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The creator of X-Com looks pretty psyched about his new Kickstarter project
We’ve talked about X-Com creator Julian Gollop’s wizardry tactics game Chaos Reborn before, but we’re going to talk about it again because it hit Kickstarter yesterday, and because we never pass up an opportunity to talk about wizards. Well, actually, we do. Under normal circumstances, we can take
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Terrifying Theo Jansen sculptures recreated in miniature; are adorable now
The artist and engineer Theo Jansen is famous for constructing strange, skeletal, self-propelled, kinetic sculptures that scurry eerily down the beaches of the Netherlands. He’s a guy we like to keep our eye(s) on because his work infuses architecture and artistry, much like games do. But now his wa
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A hacktivist artist printing the US Constitution on a sales receipt
There’s something startling about seeing a document with the reverence of the US Constitution scrolling out of an everyday receipt printer. And this art project by Thibault Brevet bores into that patriotic nerve. Revealed at SXSW, the CONSTI2GO is a small electronic device that lets anyone reproduce
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Local-multiplayer game Heli Brawl is Matisse meets Messhof
Something about developer 2bam’s depiction of Walter from The Big Lebowski getting his head blown off is distinctly Henri Matisse. The art direction in their game Heli Brawl, alternatively, Helibrawl, has a similar striking color palette and deformed abstract quality. But the other half of it—the fi
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Let’s gawk at Hyper Light Drifter’s preposterously hot pixel art
We already knew action-role-player Hyper Light Drifter was easy on the eyes. That was a done deal. But this new trailer really hammers the point home. In case you missed the Kickstarter campaign that blew up last year, this gorgeous showpiece of pixel art is also a game, and judging from the footag
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Some friendly advice on how to avoid getting pwned in Titanfall
Over at Top Tier Tactics, the prolific Xiant has been posting brief but useful player’s guides on how not to get smoked in Titanfall. (Never heard of it? Then you should read our review.) This should be a great resource for newbies because it’s a landmark game on a new system which will attract thos