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Why the creators of Little Inferno just want to watch the world burn.
The makers of Little Inferno explain why everything needs to go in the fireplace.
Jason Johnson
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Kevin Smith’s Clerks as told through a 90s videogame retailer at Babbage’s
With console makers intent on selling games digitally, it certainly looks like standalone game shops are a dying breed. In a fond retelling of his days working at Babbage’s, a former major game retailer ubiquous in shopping malls across America in the 90s, Lee Hutchinson says that is a sad thing, th
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Limits & Demonstrations is the adventure game inspired by Nam June Paik and a mini MFA in art
If the rest of Kentucky Route Zero turns out to be anything like the first chapter, the game will go down as a dark, strange, slick, mature, artistic, and mysterious venture unlike any other. My theory is that’s because while most adventure game designers pull from older adventure game designers for
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Drinking games are broken. This beer-despensing arcade cabinet can help.
After seeing this brilliant arcade cabinet that pours the winner a pint of pilsner, I’m suddenly optimistic about the future of drinking games. Called the Barcade, the machine was made by an ad agency to promote Big Boss Brewing Company of Raleigh, North Carolina’s sweet carbonated golden brews. It
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From Rocket Age panels to Wii U’s GamePad, the dream of watching TV conveniently is actualized
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 wasn’t so much about the Cold War, or a response to Solaris, or an answer to the question concerning the misuse of technology. To me, anyway, it was about interior design. To this day, I still dream of finding at an estate sale Dave’s podlike swivel chairs, which captured the
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Assassin’s Creed 3 award for best writing highlights the problem of judging story in games.
Over the weekend, The Writers Guild of America, who you may remember as the labor union responsible for the Hollywood writers’ strike a few years ago, got together to hand out some avian-shaped trophies for best screenplays, and as always they were amenable enough to include screenplays for videogam
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A socialist state emerges in China’s alternate EVE universe
It’s no secret that China has a constrictive grip on what it’s citizens are allowed to access over the internet. Google’s struggles to operate within the nation were prominent, and residents within the country can’t use social networks like Facebook or Twitter, instead relying on state-sponsored var
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The daddy of all game collections remains unsold on eBay, begs question of why we collect at all
A jaw-dropping collection of games, chockablock with more videogameania in one place than this games writer has ever seen, was put up for auction on eBay with a starting price of $575,000.00 but ended without receiving a bid. What gives? – – – The sale was for some 6850 games, 330 systems, 220 co
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The not-so-adorable toy RQ-1 Predator drone, now sold out on Amazon
The sad fact of the matter is, like the AR-15, the RQ-1 Predator and “drones” in general have achieved a notorious cachet. That’s why you are reading this article about a 1:97 scale, die-cast toy version of the winged death-machine — currently out of stock on Amazon. That’s why I’m writing it. And t
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Civilization V designer wants to give Attila the Hun his due
The history of the West is a violent, teeth-gnashing, and unholy succession through the centuries. And while empire-builder games let us toy with the past — to stroke our chins and speculate what if Rome had been defeated, say, in the War against Nabis in 195 BC — they’re typically a war of attritio
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Climate Defense isn’t obligated to be fair to climate change deniers
There’s nothing that will get two stolid, amenable, friendly people at each others throats faster than the issue of climate change. Speaking as a liberal living in the South, this is a topic I’ve learned not to broach because you will not win, even after the entire island nation of Maldives has been
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Valve’s mad-scientist tinkerer Jeri Ellsworth has left the building. Now she can get back to inventing amazing things!
Valve certainly aren’t gun-shy about ousting their best-known talent. Though critics and fans admiration of Portal approached adulation, designer Kim Swift soon parted ways with the company. And you might have heard that after only a year Jeri Ellsworth — the quirky electric engineer who began her c