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Playlist: an elusive meditation on gender and intimacy

Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. PLUG & PLAY (iOS)  BY ETTER STUDIO  At first glance, Plug & Play is a game about binary opposites. The screen flicks between black and white, and the primary actors are male and female plugs a

Playlist: The Metroidvania goes to Ancient Greece

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Playlist: the papercraft classic Yet It Moves comes to iOS

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Playlist: A wintry walk in the woods from the team behind Night in the Woods

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Dream of this week’s playlist pick

Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. THE SAILOR’S DREAM (iOS) BY SIMOGO Simogo’s previous games Year Walk and Device 6 put richly detailed spins on recognizable frameworks: point-and-click adventure, interactive fiction. But The

Another week, another Playlist roundup

Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. WOAH DAVE! (iOS, PC/MAC, ANDROID, NINTENDO 3DS, PS4 & PS VITA) BY CHOICE PROVISIONS Meet Dave. Our hero is fending off aliens by throwing their eggs and glowing skulls. One day, he … well, tha

Three new games to get you through the work week

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This week’s playlist has arrived

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Three new games to dig into this week

Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. ALIEN: ISOLATION (PC, MAC, PS3/PS4, XBOX 360/XBOX ONE) BY CREATIVE ASSEMBLY Ridley Scott’s seminal space slasher Alien and the tension of a survival-horror game are such a perfect pair that it

Playlist: a trio of new videogames to delight you this week

Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist email here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. REPRISAL UNIVERSE (PC AND MAC) BY ELECTROLYTE You are Thallos, a mighty warrior with a large tribe and powerful elemental totems. The world is yours … until your jealous siblings act all evil-s