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Temple Running with Usain Bolt, open-world mountain biking, & head-tracking comes to iPhone
The future is now.
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Is Shin Megami Tensei 4 gaming’s The Savage Detectives?
It’s been ten years since the last entry in Atlus’s flagship role-playing series. Luckily, Shin Megami Tensei 4 will keep you busy the next ten.
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The creators of Rocksmith explore the virtual sessionmate.
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Meet the voxel, the pixel’s long-lost cousin, and why it became videogames’ Betamax
Ken Silverman spent his early adulthood hoping to voxels would make him the game generation’s Edison. Instead, he became its Tesla.
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Earthbound comes to papa, Curiosity gets ultra-real, & the Battlestar Galactica guy is making a game
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We revisit LIMBO on iOS to find a warped but not unpleasant sense of joy
Playdead vamps and revamps in everyone’s macabre delight.
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Are costumes the new game controllers?
Kaho Abe’s wearable devices are future-chic.
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Devine Lu Linvega’s occult language connects his games Nataniev and Hiversaires to the isolated streets of Tokyo. Also, he can see sound.
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In Ethiopia, one game design professor believes that young girls hold the key
Jessica Hammer is changing Eastern Africa, one dice roll at a time.
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At Games For Change, data theft, sex ed, and Jewish identity on full display
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