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The game that lets you buy worldly influence in a heavenly organization
A good free-to-play game is a little like a religion. The gameplay has you coming back every day to perform rituals for an abstract goal, and sometimes a little money can help you reach that goal faster. Wait, that last one only counts for influencing mortals. Buying or selling positions of influenc
Hacking game "Quadrilateral Cowboy" will teach you to program
“Edugame” seems like a redundant neologism because all videogames are inherently educational, but they are a genre and there is something ineffable that links them together — something about them is just off. I run from Number Munchers like I run from a textbook; games like this are didactic excerci
The Ocarina that almost wasn’t: my greatest Thanksgiving game memory
It was the half-day Wednesday before Thanksgiving break, 1998, and I had Zelda on my mind. From the moment I woke up until the last seconds of Mr. Sotella’s 8th grade English class announced four and a half days of unencumbrance, I had fixed in my brain the golden cartridge. I had planned, preordere
Pau Gasol will catch all of your Pokémon
Last week, Deadspin detailed the online travails of Adria Gasol, the youngest of the budding basketball dynasty Gasol family. Marc’s older brother Pau is an NBA all-star who just crossed the 15,000 point mark (joining other foreign-born pros like Hakeem Olajuwon and Steve Nash). Adria’s other older
Some Life Lessons I Choose to Read into Super Hexagon to Partially Justify The Insane Amount of Time I’ve Put Into It
* Sometimes it’s easier to go against the flow. Resistance is clarifying. * Be direct. This isn’t Super Scenic Route. * Do only what you mean to do. Don’t flail around like a nervous turd, be deliberate. That’s right, a nervous turd. * It sounds simple, but look where you’re going. * Yeah, getting
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