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The word around the Internet is that there have been some seedy deals going down on YouTube channels, with major players directly or indirectly paying content providers to promote their gaming products. Specifically, Microsoft paid one of their partners, Machinima, who in turn paid YouTubers a lousy
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Daniel Benmergui has been working on Storyteller—his critically acclaimed, experimental, narrative-generating puzzle game (phew!)—for a long time. As we detailed in an in-depth feature on him at the end of last year, it’s his passion project, and a rallying cry for videogame developers in Latin Amer
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When it comes to big open-world games, size matters. That’s why we typically don’t see on Kickstarter games with the span of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the medieval open-world RPG that will feature around thirty hours and 3.5 square miles of horseback riding, crusades, smithing, and historical slaug
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Do you find yourself refreshing your blog posts at traffic lights? Feel itchy and irritable when the Internet is out? Wake up in the middle of the night to change your Facebook status? That’s OK, we all do. But keep it to yourself when in the People’s Republic, or you might wake up groggy from slee
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Both art project and high-score-grabbing arcade game, 577Rhea by Andre Sier strikes a balance you wouldn’t expect. It’s Astroids if Astroids was meant to be aesthetically challenging, with flickering neon green octagons, humming tonal sounds, and glitched-out spin art. But it’s also pretty much Astr
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We knew that somewhere, someway we’d have a good reason to fire up our PlayStation 4s again, and we were right, because Resogun is getting more content. It should be noted that we have no idea when, but let’s hope it’s soon, as we’re currently in the midst of a next-gen gaming drought the size of th
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There is a growing problem among teenagers, if the website for this Immersion biometric ear-band is to be believed. (Hint: it shouldn’t be.) It seems millions of upper-middle-class, unbearably Caucasian male teens who use copious amounts of hairspray cannot control their gamer rage. But have no fear
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The original La-Mulana was super-difficult doujin-ware made by a group of hobbyists from Osaka in 2006. It was never intended for mass consumption, a lovingly made yet punishingly hard throwback to the days of retro gaming, when games were abstruse, and tip-lines and the playground were a poor-man’s
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By now you’ve surely heard that Nintendo is bleeding money, and that there’s pressure from investors for them to push their stable of properties—which include Mario, Yoshi, Diddy Kong, and Pikachu—to mobile phones. Historically speaking, this is something Nintendo doesn’t do. Nintendo has always bee
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This year, the annual Games for Change festival will be joining the Tribeca Film Festival in lower Manhattan, April 22nd through 24th. You may know Games for Change as the NYC non-profit that promotes do-good games, including small but incredibly important titles, such as Cart Life and Papers, Pleas
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For screwy malfunctions that break games in unthinkable ways, glitches are pretty inspirational. That’s why I’m mighty impressed by this glitch in Majora’s Mask, discovered by YouTuber user Indextic, which allows for fast travel to any region in Hyrule from the outset of the game. If you think about
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The nominations for the Academy Awards were announced this morning, and by some glaring oversight Pacific Rim failed to receive a nod in the Best Visual Effects category. (However, Gravity, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Star Trek: Into Darkness, and Iron Man 3 did.) The film is about ferociou