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Inside the horror game that wants to lower your anxiety
Nevermind fuses biological feedback to help your everyday life.
Jason Johnson
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The Transformers MMO lacks any and all signs of Michael Bay-ness
This could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your opinion of Bay’s growling, baroque renditions of your childhood heroes, but the upcoming Transformers MMO is opting for the visual style of the Universe toy line rather than the movies. I’m personally a little underwhelmed with the trailer
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Shin Megami Tensei comes to iOS March 18th, makes waiting for Persona 5 almost bearable
Persona 5 may seem like an eternity or two away, but Atlus feels your pain. So they’re bringing a port of the original Shin Megami Tensei to iOS on March 18th, which kinda makes up for things. You can think of SMT as Persona’s cigarette-smoking older sister. The difference between the two franchises
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This game lets you vandalize Ai Weiwei’s urns without jail time
Ai Wei Whoops is a game about the culture of art vandalism, where an attack on art by megalomaniacs and furious postmodern art haters often absurdly increases the value of the artwork. This apparently is not the case for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s painted urn, which was valued at a million dollars a
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The Internet is more restricted around the world than you think
The Internet has great potential to do good stuff, like spreading freedom of speech around the globe, but according to this info-graphic map by an advocacy group for freedom of the press, it turns out that in many places it’s just another form of censorship. The color code shows where governments ra
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Kill Shakespeare is the boardgame based on the bard’s bloodiest plays
Even if you managed to sleep your way through your sophomore year, you know the story of Macbeth. The Thane of Glamis meets some witches, hallucinates about seeing a bloody dagger, kills his boss, and develops obsessive compulsive disorder. Well, Kill Shakespeare has nothing to do with any of that.
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N++ trailer shows off what all those plusses mean
With its second-and-a-half sequel, N—the original keyboard-smashing, nuts-and-bolts jumper—has added another + to its belt, indicating that it’s bigger, badder, and probably harder. But also that + means it’s still the same beautifully designed platforming that you loved when avoiding trigonometry h
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The teletext photo editor turns your selfies into beautiful, abrasive pixels
Teletext the World is a photo-editing website and tool that can transform any photo into primary, abrasive teletext imagery. It kinda looks like an Anna Anthropy game. But what’s a teletext anyway? A brief history lesson: teletext predated the World Wide Web by transmitting info like news and weath
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Fantasy esport Dota 2 gets fantasy leagues; fantasy to ensue
Fantasy football has the natural ability to turn even the most casual of pigskin fans into rabid stat-obsessed fanatics, and soon that tenacity will be rubbing off on DOTA 2. With the newest patch, fantasy DOTA leagues are now a thing. They work pretty much like their somewhat-distant football cousi
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New PBS Game/Show asks why we get so attached to NPCs
From Ellie, to Clementine, to, yeah, even Claptrap, the advent of believable non-playable characters, or NPCs, is one of the biggest developments in games in recent years, and also one of the strangest. Unlike the occasional actor and television personality that we form unrealistic attachments too,
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Is this the first glimpse of Dark Souls 2’s world map?
I believe it is. You can scope it on a dry erase board at From Software’s studio at the 4:23 mark of the mini-documentary Namco Bandai released yesterday. It’s hard to make out much—some castle ruins scribbled chaotically in red and blue marker, possibly a shrine with a Japanese symbol I can’t read
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Videogames enter the post-WASD era
In praise of walking and looking.