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The only reason I can figure Kim Swift is releasing Soul Fjord on January 28th as an OUYA timed-exclusive is because the little cuboid console fondly reminds her of the Portal cube. That, or money. In either case, we have the first footage of it in action, which you can scope at the 1:15 minute mark
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In the lineage of all things Xeno, first came Xenogears, then came Xenosaga, then Xenoblade, and then this art-book, Xenogears Perfect Works, which hopefully captures the series mega-complex-Freudian-psychosexual-reincarnation history of Catholicism story, to go along with drawings of robots. The bo
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There’s insanity and then there’s insanity, and this qualifies as the “and then there’s insanity” variety. A speed-runner on YouTube has hacked Super Mario World so that Mario’s noggin takes a metaphysical leap to a game of Pong, where it is batted around between two wood platforms. Next, it moonlig
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“Procedural generation” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but hearing about how it’s used in the space-flight game No Man’s Sky is pretty fascinating. Speaking to Edge, Sean Murray of Hello Games describes all the crazy, unexpected things that can happen when relying on artificial intelligence to
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Magic: The Gathering is the perennial deck-building card game about wizards and elemental spirits and evil and stuff. And sometime in the future it will be a motion-picture bursting at the seams with high-fantasy lore, as Twentieth Century Fox has acquired the rights to adapt it into a motion pictur
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If there’s one thing that games excel at, it’s capturing grimy post-industrial apocalypses. But the other thing they’re really good at is portraying really adorable, cutesy stuff. The good folks who are making the platformer Rain World (they don’t have a studio name, just the makers of Rain World) c
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The competitive sword-clanger Nidhogg hit Steam yesterday. You should probably play it, and not just because it’s a fun party game to play drunkenly at indie game parties where Doseone shows up because the rap world has rejected him. Talking to Venus Patrol, its creator Messhof, who’s been laboring
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned from game with stealth elements such as Metal Gear Solid and more recently The Last of Us, it’s that when things go bad I’d do best to hide behind some cargo crates and start neck-stabbing buffoons. This is the norm for these types of games. But Path of Shadows—a go
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There was a lot of hype around virtual reality at CES last week, but don’t overlook the fantastic possibilities of augmented reality. You can see what they’re capable of in the video below: namely, very-impressive holograms projected out in front of you. While this pair of CastAR augmented reality g
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Today at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Toyota revealed a curvy, candy-apple red sports car called the FT-1. But before this sexy coupe was assembled, it existed in a videogame, tested extensively and designed on the tracks of Gran Turismo 5 and 6. The Verge reports that Pol
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After nearly a year, Electronic Arts is now allowing SimCity to be modded, so players can tweak, twist, rejigger, and reinvent the metropolis-building game free of legal concerns. Yes, there are some stipulations, such as that modders can’t sell their mods, although asking for a donation is OK. Also
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Martin Scorsese recently wrote an open letter to the film industry, explaining how the world of cinema is changing for the better, because things like the Internet and the decreasing cost of quality camera equipment are empowering small creators to get their art out there without the bankrolling of