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A Special Message from Kill Screen’s Official Ombudsman
Putting the “FUN” back in “videogames”
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The magical realism of Japanese author Murakami gets its own videogame
You’d think videogames and magical realism would’ve found each other by now, but the pairing is still a tragically rare sight. Kentucky Route Zero is one of the few games I can name that embraces elements of magical realism without evolving into full-blown fantasy, but another project called Memoran
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Cult classic horror game Pathologic will get an HD remaster before its remake
I’ve only ever met people who love or hate Pathologic. The strange Russian game about a diseased town (to put it simply) won several awards, but English-speaking players criticized it for its poor translation. Its recently crowdfunded remake aims to solve this issue, among other things, but Ice-Pick
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Try (and fail) to impersonate a feline and win all the cat dollars in Cat Show
Combat the feline take over by impersonating one in Cat Show
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The magical illusions of hocus. reach the zenith of minimalist puzzlers
Staring at the magician’s hands.
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A virtual reality game about disarming bombs asks how much you trust your friends
Even on the best of days, defusing a bomb is a difficult task. Can there ever really be a “best day” that involves defusing a bomb? Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is not interested in simplifying this task. Developed by Ottawa’s Steel Crate Games, it layers wrinkle upon wrinkle, making the task of
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Shut up, The Beginner’s Guide
If you do not like The Beginner’s Guide, we have the review for you.
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Allison Road ventures into the woods with its latest horrifying reveals
The world outside Allison Road’s iconic house setting is even stranger and more dangerous than what’s previously been revealed. New concept art for the upcoming horror game shows off an eerie forest setting, a moss-covered wood in the shadow of a looming mountain and overlooking a grey lake. In one
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WORLDS COLLIDE: On Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 and Style in skateboarding
The legacy of Tony Hawk videogames, in skateboarding and open worlds.
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China is counting videogame purchases against your credit score
The Chinese government, with the assistance of national internet oligopolists Alibaba and Tencent, is in the process of introducing a new form of credit score that will factor in political compliance, the actions of one’s acquaintances, and the products one chooses to buy. Under this scheme, buying
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GIF GJ is a Frankenstein’s monster of millennial internet culture
I think it’s time we accept that the GIF has become our symbol for this moment in the digital age. Fleeting, repetitive, ephemeral and yet always the same, the GIF captures the essence of a generation built on the internet: a never-ending loop of recycled information spreading on and on and on, ad i
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The Impossible Scaffold
Architectural metaphor in videogames.