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Still whimsical as ever, but the new Kirby title has Smash Bros. mode
Nothing says bursting over with playfully fanciful behavior like a new Kirby
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Surprisingly, Jonathan Blow doesn’t hate landscape designers
The importance of a well-placed tree
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Dark Souls 2 won’t be coming to mobiles, and here’s why that’s bad for games.
Mobiles can do serious games too, you know?
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This Minecraft construction reminds us of Studio Ghibli, and that’s a good thing
who knew Miyazaki played Minecraft
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Dots dev are good at connecting lovers as well as dots
Here’s something nice for the holidays. The guys at We Play Dots—who made Dots, the best game on iPhone about, you guessed it, dots—have helped a couple get engaged. When Shawn, a fan of the game, emailed the team to ask them to assist him in proposing to his girl Cassie, the developer created a spe
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Carols are even more festive when a Commodore 64 is singing them
Nothing will get you in the holiday spirit faster than an iMac, a Commodore 64, a ZX Spectrum, and a Mega Drive singing a carol. Likely, James Houston of The Glasgow School of Art arranged this harmonic ensemble of synthesized voices for the novelty factor. After all, hearing the voice of Fred of Ma
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After 50-something versions, psychedelic Nowhere will fry your mind
Nowhere is about, well, I’m not exactly sure. The last time I heard of the game, back in spring, it had a cyberpunkish, post-singularity vibe. That was alpha 54. The new trailer has gone beyond that, showing cities of the future transformed into growing, biological detritus. Maybe what we’re looking
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Persona Q makes us wonder if there’s any genre these millennials couldn’t improve
Over the weekend we got our first peek at Persona Q, the spin-off of the RPG series about battling demons and going dutch. The game, as expected, looks great, with a so-cute-it-has-to-be-Japanese art direction, and health meters you can gleam for a second that look suspiciously like those from the d
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Breathtaking Arma 3 mod proves government-financed videogames are a good thing
Okay, so this military training program isn’t really a mod. But close enough. BISimulations, otherwise known as Bohemia Interactive, the creators of ARMA 3, have released this mighty impressive trailer showing off the visual technology of VBS3. Among the countries who will use the software to train
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Tengami’s gorgeous world of paper pops out in our digital era, literally
Plus, no paper cuts.
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Every toy you wanted for Christmas distilled into one ludicrous boardgame
The aught’s ADD meets spirited 80’s awesomeness.
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Do Oculus Rift’s early adopters dream of a virtual reality afterlife?
Probably not. But the other day Aeon Magazine published a pretty creepy article, 3,500 words in length, speculating on the possibility of an afterlife which is entirely computer-simulated. So, basically, the singularity. The author’s thought process flows from the old question: if we could upload th