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Knee Deep aims for southern-fried surrealism
Knee Deep proves that surrealism isn’t easy.
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This procedurally generated game captures the lurid rituals of a concert
Everyone shuffles in, somehow looking both non-committal and excited. The space is tight-knight, vaguely dingy, and hot from all the breaths and bodies. People are talking, but not real talk—at most, small talk, to diffuse the tension of waiting. Then, the lights go black and everything stops for on
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Killing Lara Croft
Our 20-year obsession with the Tomb Raider’s demise
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Clouds Below lets you unfurl your wings and soar over beautiful vistas
It’s not easy to jump out of a plane, y’know? I will do it for the first time in approximately two weeks from 7,000 feet in the air. I might be shitting myself. But worse is all the prep up until that moment—about 30 seconds of freefall—as it’s a lot of hassle. I’ve had to join the British Parachute
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Dropsy, the clown game, is still decidedly horrifying and loveable
Remember Dropsy, everyone’s favorite clown/nightmare fuel? For those who don’t remember, Dropsy first began as a good joke on the Something Awful forums in 2004 and quickly spiraled into The Creepy Clown Game That Could, with over a decades worth of tumultuous development history, including: an almo
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Unmask corrupt Mexican politics with this surreal art installation
For some, it was only a matter of time before Mexico’s most infamous drug lord escaped. After being captured just last February, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman spent less than 18 months in police custody before it was discovered last weekend that he was no longer in his cell. Instead, prison security dis
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In honor of Arkham Knight, we replayed the worst Batman games ever made
The Idiot Adventures of Batman and Robin.
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Shrugging Off Mental Illness in Rise of the Tomb Raider
Lara Croft should be allowed to have moments of weakness.
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You’ll be able to enter the fevered mind of a game developer in One Dreamer
There is currently no shortage of games. Imagine a game, any game—a small game, a weird game, a psychedelic game, whatever—and there are probably twelve versions of it online. This is great. The more the merrier. But as one processes the daily deluge of wonderful little oddities, it’s hard not to wo
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Shut up and go stream Advantageous, a feminist sci-fi stunner now on Netflix
A quietly great new sci-fi film is on Netflix. You should watch it. Like, right now.
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The infographics world of Metrico is being blown up for bigger screens
Metrico was released in August of last year as a PS Vita exclusive. A puzzle platformer from Dutch studio Digital Dreams, the game is set in a world of moving, living infographics. Colorful pie charts dot the landscape. Jutting line graphs become three dimensional mountains in the backdrop. Bar grap
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Devastated Dreams will finally give airtime to the terror of becoming a mom
Dadification is out. Momification has only just begun.