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Behind the humor of Toby Fox’s Undertale
The sly, Lynchian humor of this year’s subversive RPG hit.
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Prey for the Gods brings back memories of Shadow of the Colossus
Few games have topped the truly epic scale of Shadow of the Colossus and its iconic boss battles, but an upcoming game called Prey for the Gods looks like a worthy comparison. Created by No Matter, the recently revealed Prey for the Gods will have you battling huge deities on a frozen island in a jo
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Timebound is a new app that will have you living out history in real time
History, in case you were wondering, covers a good chunk of time. Much of that time has been horrible, but there’s plenty of it. How, then, does one go about representing history? Should the focus be on the time or the suffering? The normal solution to this problem, as is evidenced by the history se
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Babycastles Living celebrates furniture with videogames and wacky exhibits
The internet’s rapid consumption tears into furniture design.
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The world of Death Trash is gross, but you won’t be able to look away
Desert punks in a puke bar. Gore on the cave walls. A giant weeping blood into a lava pit. It can only be… Death Trash! Death Trash is an upcoming game pitched as a post-apocalyptic RPG mash-up of Planescape: Torment and Ultima 7, with added helpings of sex, cyberpunk, and horror. At first glance, I
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The Reality Hunger of Davey Wreden
How The Beginner’s Guide expands the lexicon of games.
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A note about our reviews policy
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Someone figure out this terrifying internet puzzle already so I can sleep at night
It’s important to appreciate the spoopiest month of the year by scouring the internet for what it does best: telling you horrifying stories that freak you the fuck out. From creepy pasta to Slender Man, you might as well think of the internet as the ultimate crowd-sourced nightmare fuel. And now we
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Freefalling in love with Downwell, the tiniest roguelike
Spelunky has a furious little heir apparent in Downwell.
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Relive those awkward AIM chats from your youth with this videogame
I often wonder if the internet of today will ever be as ancient a place as the internet of my youth, some 10 or 20 years into the future—if I’ll look back on my Twitter feed, the various chat programs I use with my friends, and get the same pang of nostalgia I do now from hearing Windows XP boot up
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The IRL Dogmeat is nobly keeping Bethesda sane before the release of Fallout 4
Meet the real life Dogmeat from Fallout 4, who brings joy to even the bleakest post-apocalypse
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Skeleton flower’s mystery plays out in an obsolete 1990s operating system
The bit of you left behind in your desktop.