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Cannibal western Bone Tomahawk is savage, essential Halloween viewing
The last road to hell.
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It’s okay. Lego was never your friend anyway
Corporations are not your friends. Case in point: Lego recently refused to ship a bulk order to artist Ai Weiwei citing a longstanding policy of not directly providing pieces to those who seek to make political statements. Ai took to Instagram to declare: “Lego’s refusal to sell its product to the a
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2Dark, the next game from Alone in the Dark creator, gets a classically horrific trailer
You know when a horror game or trailer for a game pulls out the creepy little girl lullaby music, it’s a sure sign that shit’s about to get real—too real. 2Dark, the next project from creator of the classic Alone in the Dark series, Frédérick Raynal, knows his game is supposed to be a hokey, fun-sca
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The Basement’s Basement
Silent Hill’s such a screwed-up city even its buildings have issues.
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Play the platformer hidden behind your desktop
Did you know that there’s an entire platformer hidden beneath your desktop? Alright, it isn’t there right now. But if you go ahead and download Simon Milfred’s game Omni there will be. It brings a delightful twist to the windows that we use to peer into software and the internet on our PCs. The idea
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The creepypasta hell inside Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Why videogames are great for creepypasta.
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Slack’s error page is actually an interactive scene from a defunct game
It wasn’t long ago that working in America was defined by a common image: people gathering around an office water cooler every morning to drink coffee and discuss the latest episode of shows like Dancing with the Stars (team Bindi, by the way). However, with 1 in 5 Americans now working from home th
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Albino Lullaby exercises jump scares from horror, and not much else
Kooky horror ends up not being very horrifying at all.
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A play about male clinical depression is now also an interactive story
An Interview is not all black—little pops of colour occasionally surface—but you could be forgiven for thinking that you’ve fallen into a world of blackness. And so you have. An Interview is Manos Agianniotakis’ interactive adaptation of Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn’s play “Fake It ‘Til You Make
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Stay, Mum is a tear-jerker about a strained mother-son relationship
According to Freud, one of the most traumatic events in a child’s early life can be watching his mother leave. Observing one child who, following his mother’s departure, would always joyfully fling his toys far away only to reel them back in and do it all over again, Freud deduced that this “game” w
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A fascinating look at Museum of Simulation Technology’s perspective puzzles
The first time I saw Museum of Simulation Technology was at the Experimental Gameplay Workshop at GDC in 2014. A forced perspective puzzler about using visual tricks to navigate a labyrinthine dreamworld, it’s one of those charmingly clever games that’s just delightful to watch, especially for a new
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The corridor and the corner
P.T.’s greatest trick.