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Because it’s totally lame to fire a dinky little light gun in virtual reality, the Striker VR looks, rattles, and vibrates like a real-deal, deadly assault weapon. “Input” remains one of the great unknowns in our VR-filled future, so you might as well pick one of these up if you’ve already sprung fo
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Submerged, from the little-known Australians at Uppercut Games, is a very pretty exploration game about sailing a small fishing vessel through a tropical city that is half, well, submerged. The devs posted on their development blog that they are going for a kind of “destroyed beauty,” which we so o
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The digital art archivists at Rhizome have excavated and extracted files from the computer that contains Cory Arcangel’s 2005 Bomb Iraq, so now you can experience a piece of art from the creator of Super Mario Clouds in your browser. A sort of modern-day Duchamp’s Fountain, Bomb Iraq is a post-conc
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The short answer is: historical accuracy. Wait, what? OK, so granted Wolfenstein: The New Order features some pretty outrageous stuff, like cyborg guard dogs and a mad scientist that has engineered human mechas. But as Wolfenstein’s creative director Jens Matthies tells Giant Bomb, a lot of research
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Now that Atlus is re-releasing Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon on PSN later this week, I can finally put my PS2 to bed. A sequel to a mediocre game which sported a super-long, unwieldy name, Devil Summoner 2 was overlooked by nearly everyone when it released for the PS2 well into
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Japan doesn’t get much street cred for developing small independent games. (Of course, there are some notable exceptions.) However, in recent years, Nintendo of Japan has been hosting a Game Seminar to foster independent talent. At the most recent event, they invited young creators to grow and crea
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After spending two years in exile in The Wandering Isles, the opening area in World of Warcraft, which is pretty much intended to introduce players to the game, WoW player Doubleagent has reached level 90, the maximum character stat in the dragon-dueling MMO, which is patently insane. You might not
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Vane is a jaw-dropping game about exploring dangerous old ruins in desolate nature, and boy does it have pedigree. It’s coming to us from some self-described devilishly handsome ex-members of The Last Guardian team—that’s Fumito Ueda’s long en absentia, man-eating yet puppy-eyed monster game for Pl
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In one word: yes. It could be terrible!!! As you may know, the FCC is currently considering new legislation that could radically jeopardize the Internet we know and love. But you may not have considered the implications this would have on the medium of videogames. These days, games are pretty much i
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Sheltered, a cool-looking management sim on Kickstarter, has all the down-to-earth trials and tribulations of daily family life. You provide food and shelter for your loved ones, repair home appliances, make a quick run to the store, take care of the pets, and, uh, defend your fallout bunker from th
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Back in the 50s and 60s, people thought that by now we’d be living in a bright, shiny future with a bunch of really beautiful, silver rocket cars. This was sadly not to be, so now The High Mueseum in Atlanta is displaying many prototypes of these failed futuristic rides in its Dream Cars exhibit, ru
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Other people’s meeples—those famous, multicolored, wooden board game pieces—have a bad habit of claiming the territory you have your eye on. It can get annoying. So for his Five Tribes, designer Bruno Cathala decided to design a meeple displacement system to help on your path to becoming the dominan