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Google has put together a sizzle reel, a term I’m using completely ironically, to show off what their Google Glass eyewear can do for games. These augmented mini-games feature not-so-riveting gameplay, such as pretending to balance books on the Android robot’s head, bouncing a tennis ball from your
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The cool thing about Troubadour is that it’s kind of a game, but kind of not a game. It occupies that weird nether-region between every other artistic medium and play. The story is about digital distraction in the modern age and the lack of human-to-human connections caused by all these screens, whi
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We’re giddy with excitement about episode 2 of The Wolf Among Us, which is coming in February, and you should be too. Why? Well, lemme tell you. One, because the Fable comic it’s based on is amazing. Two, because it’s a chance to play a game like The Walking Dead without being stuck in the universe
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We knew Nintendo had their back against the wall. We knew they were poised to do something about it. We knew we’d find out today. But we didn’t know how the company planned to claw its way out, however, until a few hours ago, when the company revealed their refocused initiative, in the un-fun way th
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The trailer for Terry Gilliam’s upcoming film The Zero Theorem has dropped and looks like a Terry Gilliam film, which is to say that it involves an eccentric, disconnected, but also genius main character. This time it’s a mad computer programmer who refers to himself as “we” and lusts over a woman i
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Club Rothko Builder is a place on the web for creating glitchy, abstract digital art. Its creator LaTurbo Avedon is no stranger to the digital space, having opened art shows in Second Life and constructed impossible digital sculptures that look like crumpled silicon. In fact, we ran a feature her la
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D&D Yoga is a tranquil exercise that takes a yoga class on a dungeon dive, which works far better than it has any right to. I mean, yoga is an ancient Buddhist practice that promotes flexibility and inner peace. Dungeons & Dragons, a tabletop game that promotes sitting around a table for hours and s
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Unsung Story is shaping up to be even more like Final Fantasy Tactics, as Playdek has added another Square Enix employee to their ranks. This time it’s Akihko Yoshida, the character artist from Tactics, who recently designed the little witches in Bravely Default. We don’t know what Unsung Story will
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The word coming out of Hotline Miami 2’s Twitter account is that it will hit “in Q3. Act accordingly.” We took that to mean to first inform you all, and then find something to criticize, and then wildly speculate, then salivate regardlessly. Here’s what we know: Devolver Digital’s ultra-violent, ul
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Judging from this behind-the-scenes video, South Park: The Stick of Truth is everything you’d want from a true-to-the-source South Park game. (Minus Isaac Hayes, RIP.) There’s “authentic crappiness,” analogue fart controls, and wisecracks written by the creators of the show, Trey Parker and Matt Sto
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Our days of piloting a little spaceship through beautiful firework patterns of bullets are sadly coming to an end, as the Western branch of Cave Interactive—the preeminent Japanese studio that makes impossible shoot’em ups known as danmaku, or bullet hells—is ceasing communication with the West. On
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The NSA and its British chums across the pond have been using a backdoor in ad-supported mobile apps—specifically, Angry Birds—to mine sensitive data, according to The New York Times. This includes Google Map locations, websites visited, and buddy lists, according to newly declassified documents lea