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The impending release of Bravely Default: Flying Fairy on January 2nd marks the end of an era. We’ll just call it the we-can-make-nothing-but –Final-Fantasy-era. For a while there, every game coming out of the RPG studio Square Enix had something to do with Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy XIII, Final F
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République is out tomorrow for iPhone, and one of the features the stealthy-action game prides itself on is the realistic depiction of the female sex. The lead, voiced by none other than FemShep herself Jennifer Hale, is a tough, resilient, and fully-clothed woman who was just hanging out in a hoodi
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Day Z was officially released today, kinda. So in honor of the brutal zombie game that had otherwise decent men writing borderline fanfic about breaking their leg and groping in the darkness until a bandit finished them off with the butt of a rifle to the head, we put together these photos. You may
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The President is holding a powwow with fifteen leading figures in the tech industry, and somehow the head of Zynga got on the list. This sounds terrible because it is. The purpose for the roundtable is for the White House to get opinions on how to correct HealthCare.gov and deal with the NSA. So, it
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A new category has appeared on Steam, bearing the words “VR support.” Now that virtual reality is a separate entity in the database, maybe this means we’ll be seeing some made-from-scratch VR games soon. When the current wave of virtual reality first gained momentum with the Oculus Rift, it was ver
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For me to dance requires a good-looking partner and a blood-alcohol-level high above the legal limit. That, or a game that cajoles me to cut a rug by placing my fingers on an iPhone. Bounden, coming to mobile devices in 2014, intends to enlighten wallflowers like me with the rhythmical movement to m
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When high-definition gaming had become predictable, Nier was a breath of fresh air. The story of a strongman in search of a cure for his terminally-ill daughter was touching, experimental, and weird, an action game that wasn’t afraid to try things, like interactive fiction. But with the closure of i
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One of the best things about artistic expression on the Internet is that cool games come out of nowhere, like western Washington. Actually we don’t know where Ice Water Games—the startup studio behind the misty, scenic Eidolon—is from, but the Pacific Northwest is the location for their game about
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Most horror games pride themselves on making your heart jump and hands shake, but here’s one that strives to relieve those nervous symptoms. The upcoming Nevermind, headed by Erin Reynolds, is the type of haunted house you’ve come to expect from a survival horror game: you’re isolated in some surrea
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Bipartisanship is a broken system and needs to be more cooperative—you know, like playing Contra, without stealing continues and bogarting the laser gun power-ups. That was the point of a tongue-and-cheek article by Slate’s top political corespondent, who played Escape From the Mysterious Room in do
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Let’s get this out of the way up front. Clusterfuck is a card game themed around sex. No actual sex is involved, although I’m guessing the rules could easily be adapted for swingers. The idea is to covertly organize a threesome between a trio of players without the other players catching on. If you
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Candy Box was a wonderful joke. It had a small but influential portion of the Internet wondering how a game that uses keyboard symbols for graphics could be playable, much less awesome. Candy Box 2’s punchline was self-referential: how could a game that was a joke justify a sequel? It, too, was inex