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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
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Last week Facebook made public their plans to establish an artificial intelligence lab, a new research center devoted to giving you the content you care about. The new technology, which is purely theoretical at this point, aims to analyze video and voice, delivering to your news feed the cutest kitt
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Some creators have the uncanny knack to be trendsetters. This goes for the Austrian developer Broken Rules, whose new game Secrets of Raetikon will be available on Steam Early Access come January 7th. You may be familiar with these Nostradamuses from Vienna by way of And Yet It Moves, an Independen
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Here are some of the gruesome things you won’t notice in the Walking Dead season 2 trailer because the music is so lovely: a hammer cracking open the skull of a zombie; a man and woman with holes blown in their head, holding hands, a revolver resting in the guy’s other hand; a little girl being grab
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Modding is the most benevolent kind of narcissism. Think about it. Here is this person, just another player, who decides for whatever reason that, say, Skyrim doesn’t live up to expectations. It would be better if they had made it. So they do. Us unadventurous types are ever-thankful for their egoti
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Grand Theft Auto V is a source of endless amusement, mostly because of all the unbelievable things you can get away with. Naturally this includes loading a city bus with a gang of roughnecks, dropping it at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere from a helicopter, and synchronously parachuting out. Rock
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The first thing you see in the newest trailer for SOMA are tentacles stretched across a foreboding catwalk under flickering lighting. The obvious point of comparison is to the horror author H.P. Lovecraft, innovator of all tendrils long and slimy. Frictional Games, who are sort of the O.G.’s of the
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The future has gotten even rosier for virtual reality, as the Oculus Rift headgear has just received a whopping 75 million dollars in financial backing from the investing firm Andreessen Horowitz. Oculus had previously raised just 16 million. This will undoubtedly propel us into the virtual future
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The key to a well-taken selfie is to do something adorably dorky and then apply a patina. Interstellar Selfie Station, by the visual novelist Christine Love, is a snapshot app that makes this easy. This is what every high-schooler would have been doing in 1998 if the Gameboy Color Camera had an inte
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Motherboard has put together a fantastic mini-documentary called The New Kings of Kong, filmed last month in Denver, Colorado, at The Kong Off 3. The heroes and villains from the 2007 feature-length Donkey Kong championship documentary are a distant memory. The diabolical Billy Mitchell and the good