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The Seven Hour City
Half-Life 2’s City 17 remains a masterclass of subversive game design.
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The Long Dark’s latest update makes surviving in the wilderness more like home
It’s the little things that I value most in survival games—those small, but important details in the environment that let me make reasonable predictions based on my surroundings, or the ability to place items in the world so that I can actually feel settled in my makeshift home. The Long Dark, a fir
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The powerless reality of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
An inability to interact with the world of Rapture forces players to pay attention.
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Ustwo will once again shift your perspective in its upcoming VR title Land’s End
Only instead of looking, you’ll be touching.
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Direct the frazzled dream worlds inside forgotten video cassettes
The lure of VHS.
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Game creator Erin Robinson Swink on the challenge of creating meaningful games
You cannot fail in Gravity Ghost, but it can still move you.
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Scrub a hunk down in this gay shower room fantasy
Don’t keep him waiting.
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Stasis and the horror of the known
An adventure game that confronts death through its optional stories
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Sigh, FIFA 16 can’t avoid the systemic inequality of women’s soccer after all
Kadeisha Buchanan, the best young player at this summer’s Women’s World Cup, is a fantastic talent, the kind of player you can only dream of being. That’s why the news that a select few female soccer players would be included in the latest edition of FIFA was so exciting. That’s also why the news th
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Rambling Through the Garden
A conversation with the makers of The Talos Principle.
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Watch 11 hours of cats being adorable to celebrate the best cat game on the planet
We don’t need an excuse to talk about cats here. Cats are a pretty big deal. We have a “cats” tag and it’s probably the most valuable thing we’ve got. That is, before we set-up our sister site Kitten Screen and take over th– okay, that’s not actually happening (it is in my dreams), but a “Kitten Scr
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Forget space marines. Let me play as the janitor
Stop worrying about saving the universe and just live in it.