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STARWHAL is the euphoric fighting game with candy-colored whales
At the end of a long day, sometimes you really need some STARWHAL. You simply can’t beat the therapeutic qualities of a rainbow of orcas spiraling end over end in a futile attempt to jab each other with sparkling magic wands. Or are they unicorn horns? To quote its Kickstarter page, “STARWHAL will
Steam reviews may become the AMAs of game criticism
One thing we’ve seen since Steam user-reviews have gone live is a onslaught of indie game developers asking for their Twitter followers to rate their games, as you can see: This is amazing because, whereas large teams dread being reviewed by reviewers-at-large on the aggregate site Metacritic, here
In the 3DS’s virtual Louvre, the tour guide is the art
Once upon a time in the late aughts, Nintendo had a dream that the DS would be used for any number of non-gaming extracurricular activities: ordering beers at Seattle Mariner home games, touring feudal rock gardens in Osaka; and ogling the Venus de Milo at the Louvre. The idea with the Louvre in pa
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