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The musician, digital artist, and game maker Lionel Williams does some of everything, but his work can be summed up elegantly as perplexing, usually playable, acid-drenched experiments. That includes this music video/videogame he directed for his band Vinyl Williams’ latest single, Stellarscope. The
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We don’t know who this man is but he is our hero. We likewise don’t know where this legendary selfie was taken, other than at a crash site in the middle of an ocean somewhere recently. But we’re pretty sure he got the idea to snap a photo of himself with the wreckage of an airplane over his shoulder
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Over at Atlus’s Japanese site, Persona’s director Katsura Hashino posted two tiny clips of early prototypes from Persona 3, and for the first time you can really see how the game connects to older Persona titles. Specifically, you can see how the old battle system was scrapped, but how the residue o
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Minecraft is an island unto itself, built entirely of square, earth-toned blocks. Though it’s one of the most successful games in history, you don’t see any other game quite like it. This is rare in an industry where borrowing ideas from others is the standard. Sure, there are legions of lesser copy
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In games, we typically see the same brainless dolts for zombies. Yeah, clickers in The Last of Us were a nice change of pace, but as a whole videogame zombies haven’t evolved far beyond the mindless shufflers from Night of the Living Dead. They’re just fodder. But zombies are a lot smarter than you
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As of this moment, we are awaiting the first massive, truly next-gen-worthy title to show us what these new systems are capable of. But have some patience. According an investor relations guide from Capcom: The amount of work involved in making games for next-gen consoles is eight to ten times grea
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When I watch Annie Hall, I see Woody Allen getting testy with a dilettante who doesn’t like Fellini. But when a computer watches Annie Hall, it sees a series of triangles drawn repetitively on a white sheet of paper. This is just one difference between man and robots. That’s what I took away from vi
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Voting has just wrapped up on the best titles in the latest Ludum Dare competition, the semi-regular game jam that produces quick, irreverent rough sketches of games by the thousands. Some of the winners include One Take, which looks like in-game photography for the Atari. Also great, Last Chance Su
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We recently learned that Oculus Rift—the guys who make the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset—are bulking up to develop their own games. They’ve already have brought on FPS-forefather John Carmack, although it was suspected he’d just be working on the technical aspects of thing. Not so! Now, they’r
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The world of The Witcher is an uninhabitable continent with mutated reindeer and white-haired barbarians. And coming later this year is The Witcher boardgame, which is based on all of that stuff. The game is for four players and is a collaboration between CD Projekt Red and Fantasy Flight Games, so
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Ultra or 4K televisions got a big push this week at CES, with major electronics companies such Sony, Samsung, and Lenovo coming out of the gates with new flatscreen models. The difference between these sleek flat rectangles and your soon-to-be-old 52-inch plasma is that they have a much higher resol
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This was bound to happen. You can only shoot so many guys in the face before you get tired of it and start screwing around with the formula. What this tech demo called Museum of Technology proves is that the possibilities are huge. But also incredibly small. The game pokes holes in your sense of sca