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
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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
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The religious roguelike Binding of Isaac has been remade and expanded into Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, and it’ll be out on November 4 for Steam, PS4, and PS Vita. In an interview we conducted with Team Meat designer Edmund McMillen, McMillen mentioned that he “was fucking positive that Isaac would no