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I am 33.23 seconds into Hexagonest. It’s far and away my best performace in Super Hexagon. I’m spinning in circles and line are flying at me from every direction. I’m tapping furiously and nothing seems like it can contain me. I am playing like an absolute hero. I wish somebody was watching because
The games market in the Middle East is flourishing. Why?
Here’s a fascinating read this morning in Gamasutra: business advice for Western publishers looking to break into the booming Middle Eastern gaming market. In particular, games that emphasize social meeting space have been doing extremely well in the region, with its extremely young population and
Sportsfriends, the local multiplayer collection, hits Kickstarter goal
Good news! Sportsfriends, the collection of excellent, offbeat local mulitplayer sports titles – from headliner JS Joust to Bennett Foddy’s awesome and cheekily-named Super Pole Riders, has hit its $150,000 Kickstarter funding target. We told you about the collection last month, in a conversation wi
Dark Souls 2 is coming and though I am glad, I am not excited
Dark Souls 2 has been announced. I thought I would have been giddy with excitement, but I’m not. I love Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls. They are some of the best games ever made, but playing one is an ordeal. I would hyperbolically equate it to climbing Mount Everest: worth it in every respect and a p
This weekend, play Soul Reaver, now on Steam
There were much better games for the PlayStation than Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, but perhaps none I remember more vividly or more fondly. From the opening cinematic on, this game owned my life. Oh, yes, that cinematic, to my mind the best one of the 32-bit era, by a wide margin: Dear lord. Ok, so,
Someone made a top-down roguelike dark sci-fi shooter that just made me wet myself
It’s called Teleglitch and it looks like this: The plot sounds like the best movie never made: See the future where humanity is controlled by cold, dark mega-corporations. One of them is Miliary Technology Incorporated (aka Militech), one of the world’s largest military research organizations, speci
A father lends a helping hand to his learning-disabled daughter: a videogame
A lot has been said about games ability to grab our attention. For some they can be a little too effective in this regard (ahem). But if you have a disability, or learning issues, it may be the only medium that you can really plug into, as it were. A step-father made a videogame with some educationa
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