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Subterfuge is a strategy game for parents and busy people
A game that plays around you.
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The world of Else Heart.Break() is yours to hack
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Else Heart.Break() (PC, Mac, Linux) BY Erik Svedang Life kinda sucks until you find out you can hack the world. That’s been the through line of a lot of cyberpunk and hacker fiction over the
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Pain is Temporary; Quitting Lasts Forever
The American dream and The Swindle. Winners and losers in Donald Trump’s America. Videogames reinforce the American Dream: that hard work eventually equals success
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An evening at the Kaleidoscope VR film festival
Does VR cinema currently have any worth?
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Knossu finds the horror in non-euclidean architecture
Knossu‘s wall textures sizzle as if they’ve been half-cooked on a frying pan. It’s like someone went nuts with the spray paint tool in Microsoft Paint and the most garish colors they could find. Have you ever bitten into something that was way too sour? Imagine that vigorous and unbearable taste car
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The refreshing smallness of Secret Legend
Secret Legend is small and pleasant—and just what videogames need
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Discover the computational hell of corporate work in Human Resource Machine
Tomorrow Corporation already showed an aptitude for making players do small, seemingly innocent tasks that fuel a nightmarish machine with Little Inferno. In Little Inferno, you must solve destructive puzzles by burning an unlikely array of objects to unlock more objects to be burned in their Little
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Jotun is awesome and awe-inspiring
Jotun is what we mean when we use the word “epic.”
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Future Firewatch lookouts: you now have a release date to watch out for
The mysteries fall ever closer.
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Need more Panoramical? Check out this ethereal interactive journey
With new album Yume, ambient electronica musician Helios seems to recall the beauty of lazing underneath a sun-crested sky. The music soothes by letting high notes drift out to a gold horizon. It seems to lift off from the soft fringes of grass and get carried out on a hot puff of wind. More precise
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Undertale’s not as peaceful as it pretends
At once charming and incoherent.
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In case you needed another JFK conspiracy, here’s Pollen’s
There is, as your tinfoil hat-wearing friends are likely to tell you, no shortage of conspiracy surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. There are the claims about the second shooter or someone on the grassy knoll. There are shadowy figures in conspiracy lore like “dark complected man,” “ba