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The reaction and the reaction to the reaction to Flappy Bird continues to mystify. But what we should really care about are games, not online circuses. Right? So, let’s talk games. It just so happens Dong Nguyen has made a few more of those, two of which are still available for free on iTunes: Shuri
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Obsidian’s dark-fantasy Kickstarter project Pillars of Eternity is looking fittingly dark and fantastic. Today, we got word that the anticipated RPG that follows in Neverwinter Nights footsteps will be coming in Winter 2014. This had me super-excited, until it dawned on me that Winter 2014 actually
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We’re breaking our self-imposed Flappy Bird embargo because the game has inspired something awesome and new. Terry Cavanagh is known for making perversely challenging games like Super Hexagon. So it comes as no surprise that he made a game in honor of Flappy Bird, the little game that at this point
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A really long, cross-stitched fabric that depicts the every major scene of Star Wars in chronological order from Episode 1 to Episode 6 is being sold for $20,000 at Gallery1988 (West) in Los Angeles. The centerpiece of pixel artist Aled Lewis’s first solo show hangs on the wall among rad prints of i
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Sometimes you can go home again, at least in virtual reality. A guy going by Dark Akuma is recreating Link’s happy boyhood village from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Oculus Rift. The software allows you to explore the quaint woodland clearing from the Nintendo 64 game in all it’s bloc
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When Turtle Rock announced that their next game was Evolve, a co-op first-person shooter with ugly aliens in it, it was generally assumed that they were doing a spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead, the co-op first-person shooter with ugly zombies, which they developed with Valve. But you know what th
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Today, Radiohead surprised everyone with a free mobile “app” called PolyFauna in which you walk around a desolate atmosphere while messing around with your phone’s features and, of course, listening to Radiohead. I’m just gonna call a spade a spade and say it’s a game. Here are some of the game-lik
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If, like me, you are the proud owner of formerly stray cats, you know the havoc they can cause to a well-kept house: the shredded upholstery of the couch, the spilled house plants, the random toilet paper roll attacks. While a nightmare for me, this must be thrilling for my awful cats. That’s the co
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Once trained to trounce the best players on the planet at Jeopardy!, IBM’s artificially-intelligent supercomputer Watson is heading to Africa to mine data that could help solve problems like disease and water scarcity. Although IBM has had difficulty marketing Watson outside of cancer centers, it’s
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The cube gets no respect. Well, until now. YouTube video producers The Hamster Alliance have edited together this wonderful montage of various videogames that feature the versatile cube. From Mario’s question block to the collapsing florescent walls of Super Hexagon, our four-sided friend has played
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Back in December, Skullgirls was unceremoniously yanked without warning from the PlayStation and Xbox stores. On Tuesday, for PlayStation Network at least, it’s back again, renamed Skullgirls Encore. The fighting game for fighting game enthusiasts by fighting game enthusiasts was originally publishe
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If you’re planning on playing the new South Park RPG and are uptight about spoilers, or about life in general, stop right here. But for everyone else, the achievements for the game are too damn funny. Not unexpectedly, there’s plenty of farting involved. There is essentially an achievement for any t