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How to Play the Cold War
Searching for the ultimate playable Cold War experience.
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The toylike world of Lovely Weather We’re Having will be with us soon
Colorful going-outside sim Lovely Weather We’re Having has a release date of November 10th for PC and Mac. You can watch the Big Announcement in this totally real clip from the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Lovely Weather We’re Having is described as a “goal-free” game about spending time outside, chatting
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Fatal Frame for Wii U finally puts your selfie skills to use
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Movable Play continues November 3rd with the folks behind Swarm and Songpop
On November 3rd we’ll continue the third installment of our new series on beautifully crafted mobile games. Join us at Betaworks Studio for great after-work talks from the creators of Swarm, SongPop, and the great student project Wukong – The Monkey King. Movable Play features valuable talks from in
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Next week: free arcade at the Ace Hotel
Next week, head over to the Ace Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where we’ll be hosting Playlist, our monthly public arcade. The arcade will be open, and free, from six to eight, so come out and join us for some afterwork digital play–no costume required. This month, get inside the head of a videogame de
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The surreal, vaporwave harmony of Executive Towers
Can an album also be a videogame? Last year, chiptune artist George & Jonathan did it, with an interactive experience for their synth-pumping, hyper-colorful third album III. So did pop producer bo en, curating his own interactive accompaniment to his debut pale machine with a host of mini-games bas
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The Stanley Parable co-creator teases new game with mysterious ARG
Coming right off the tail of Davey Wreden’s The Beginner’s Guide, the other Stanley Parable co-creator William Pugh has begun teasing a new game of his own. The unnamed mystery game, described as “a weird puzzle,” will be the debut project for Pugh’s recently founded studio Crows Crows Crows. But as
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Next up, Tale of Tales is making a virtual reality cathedral
Tale of Tales has revealed what its “non-game art project” Cathedral-in-the-Clouds is all about by launching a Kickstarter to fund it. The idea is to create a cathedral that you can enter through a virtual reality headset and then, from there, admire a series of dioramas located within its radiating
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Mattel revamps its Barbie marketing strategy to empower girls through play
Girls are important, play is important.
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Free fall to your heart’s content in Downwell
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Downwell (PC, Mac) BY Moppin In most games, falling is essentially akin to certain death. Step an inch over the edge, and the void is there to swallow you up and take some of your health alon
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The #Victorian frame of mind: A review of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
With Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Ubisoft’s machinelike series finally finds its era.
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Science says your gaming experiences may be shams
In case you weren’t already convinced that games are total bullshit, here’s a study in the New Scientist that claims the placebo effect—that noted scourge of hypochondriacs and homeopaths—also works in videogames. Ok, not everything is bullshit, but at least some of it is. The study at hand, which