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Hey New Yorkers, come play videogames with us
We’re taking over the Ace Hotel again, and it will be radical.
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Specimen wants to give you the color perception skills of a veteran painter
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Specimen (iOS) BY PepRally If your passion involves mixing paint to attain specific tones, then Specimen should come easy to you. The game involves picking out the floating blob of color (in
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This week’s Playlist pick is the abstract, spectral Sylvio
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. SYLVIO (PC, MAC) BY APOSTROPHE Were you someone who watched The Conjuring and wished you could be a badass ghost hunter like the Warrens? Well, they made a horror game for you (and your poor
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Do not stop and do not think while playing Strawberry Cubes
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Kill Screen is hiring a sales associate
Love games? Able to spot opportunities for fun out in the world? Want to work at a cool media company full of smart, excited people? Well, you’re in luck: Kill Screen is looking to hire a sales associate. We’re looking for someone young, passionate about games as culture, and looking to help grow a
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Come duel your friends to Bach’s concertos this Wednesday
Johann Sebastian Joust, Petanque, and drinks in the financial district.
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What you missed at the Ace Hotel this week
We had a great time playing games at the Ace Hotel last night. In case you missed it, here’s what we showed off. Monster Dress Up In a genre usually dominated by unrealistic beauty standards born of the male gaze, Monster Dress Up finally lets us embrace our inner monster. Instead of pencil-thin ske
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Kill Screen is bringing our favorite stuff to Ace Hotel next week
Beat the heat at the Ace Hotel with drinks, music and games.
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Artware finds a new home
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Get your summer reading on lock with the new videogame Storybundle
This is a very good deal.
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Batman: Arkham Knight is the Kid A of videogames
Most games tell you what to do. Batman: Arkham Knight tells you who to be.
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The hope and hopelessness of finding a new planet to call home
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Planetarium (PC) BY DANIEL LINSSEN Since the beginning of time, human beings have looked up at the stars and wondered about the possibilities. With Planetarium, Daniel Linssen has taken this