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With Miitomo, Nintendo escapes into the real world
Nintendo isn’t making a game for your smartphone. They’re making something better.
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An upcoming videogame has you explore the world with a visual scanner
Spawned from his background in photography, Ivan Notaros has come up with a beautiful way to explore a videogame world in his upcoming project Scanner. As the title reveals, it has you seeing through a first-generation robot’s eyes as it ventures into a post-humanity world, constructing 3D images wi
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The Case of Lara C.: A Rise of the Tomb Raider Review
The only way to understand the latest Tomb Raider game is as a failed psychotherapy.
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A somber "graveyard simulator" finds the stories behind epitaphs
On hallowed ground.
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A new tabletop game challenges you to maximize ratings as a TV executive
Operating a television network is not a game. Hold your laughter and that thought. We’ll return to it momentarily. The Networks is a tabletop game that challenges players to perform the duties of TV executives who seek to maximize viewership and, consequently, profit. You bid for shows and talent an
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Speak up, D4
Swery’s episodic game is sublimely bizarre.
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Finally, a videogame that doesn’t fetishize nostalgia
“You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood … back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escap
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Before continues to take shape as the prettiest prehistorical survival game
Cavemen games seem to be the next big thing, a natural evolution of the survival genre. Now that the post-apocalypse is becoming a little tired, it makes sense to reach way back to pre-civilization for something fresh. Big titles like Far Cry Primal and WiLD may be the ones people are talking about,
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A Japanese artist’s venture into the uncanny through cityscapes
In videogames, cityscapes are often the most interesting types of environments. From Jet Set Radio’s neon-colored, ever-grindable Tokyo-to, to Mirror’s Edge’s parkour-ready, futuristic city, cityscapes in videogames emit the uncanny, but not quite in a Freudian way. Fictional cityscapes are instead
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Campo Santo team gives insight into lookout towers around the United States
The fire towers of Firewatch are much more complicated than you think