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The story of Hyper Light Drifter is of runaway success, which is impressive for a game that hasn’t reached closed beta yet. (That’s happening in June, according to an update over the weekend.) The game exceeded its funding goal on Kickstarter by something like $600,000 and then some change, back in
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Arthur Chu has caused a stir in front of a live studio audience by taking an unorthodox approach to Jeopardy and continuing to win. Normally, contestants play the game the same way: start with an easy question for $100, then work their way down the board to pricier trivia. Chu’s strategy has veteran
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Here are a few of the weird, freaky things you can do in Ben Esposito’s bizarre music video(game) for bo en’s Pale Machine: knock a buzzing cell phone off a dresser with a rolling beer bottle; brush a disembodied mouth’s teeth; knock over a bowl of Wheaties and a milk carton with an unending, extrac
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A confused little article posted on Forbes seriously suggests that virtual reality will become the next China white. The argument is that videogames trigger the release of dopamine in the brain, which puts them in the same category as cocaine. Though Tom Bissell’s Extra Lives may have something to s
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A teaser trailer for Eliss Infinity, the sequel to Steph Thirion’s Eliss, surfaced over the weekend, calling for a polite round of Internet high-fives among those with good taste and a good memory. Although the video doesn’t reveal much aside from a release date of Feb. 6, expect to be madly pawing
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As you know, the Denver Broncos just suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in Super Bowl history. Things turned ugly quickly and stayed that way. The Broncos couldn’t match the Seahawks’ intensity and didn’t seem particularly inspired to be playing in the biggest sports game of the year. One
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One of the longest running shows in history, Law & Order ran from 1990 through 2010, which means it offers an interesting take on computer history. Artist Jeff Thompson noticed this after bingeing on the show on Netflix, and began documenting the evolution of computers used from season to season, wh
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Interviews with the Belgian art game collective Tale of Tales are always a wild ride, which is what you’d expect from the makers of Luxuria Superbia (a tube racer about racing down the fallopian tubes) and Bientôt l’été. But this interview with Michael Samyn and Auriea Harvey by our pals over at Gam
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The Ototo is almost too adorable. So adorable that it only qualifies for our late Friday afternoon post, because what’s better at the end of a long week than watching a circuit board turn almost anything into a synthesizer. And by anything, we mean anything: hoodies, coffee, house plants, cats. (Yup
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The technical prowess of esports players is amazing. They have jet pilot reaction times, process Rainman-level calculations on the fly, and can perform ten actions-per-second with their mouse cursor. But once in awhile, even the top pro players fall victim to mental fatigue, or the human requirement
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In certainly the best news of the week, Treasure—the Japanese studio whose catalogue includes all-time greats like Sin and Punishment and Gunstar Hereoes—is making a game for Steam. The company has previously ported their classic polarity-flipping shooter Ikaruga to the digital platform, but now the