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FTL is the space game that makes you forget all about exploring space
The new indie spaceship management game FTL involves a lot of, well, managing, and not a lot of space exploration. Rampant Coyote of Rampant Games found the game full of emergent narrative, with some surprising solutions to the problem of putting out fires. The focus of the game is not on space – it
The nostalgia buying cycle in videogames
Retro gamers will be familiar with the following cycle: you order a game online, you wistfully remember how awesome it was, the package arrives, and you have no desire to play it. This happened to me last time I stopped at GoG and bought Dungeon Keeper. Damien McFerran describes the problem at Eurog
Pac-Man: "like Kafka wrote a Lovecraft story."
The webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal retells Pac-Man in the mode of surrealist existential horror.
Dating and fish collecting, finally together in the same game
Everyone knows that there aren’t enough games set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by fish people. That all changes with Sealark, a kind of varation on Harvest Moon, with daily fishing taking the place of farming. Expect it in July 2013.
This hideous Darpa robot can sneak up on you
Everyone loves freaking out at a good-old Boston Dynamics/Darpa robot video, and here is the latest disquieting news: no longer will your cybernetic doom be augured by the deafening metallic squeaks and squooks of robot joints. Robot death is now 10 times quieter!
Kinect being used to efficiently surveil people without their knowledge
We all know we live in a future-shock security state with dwindling privacy and an increasingly tenuous grasp of our rights, but at least we have sweet, innocent videogames. Videogames which would never be used to spy on us, right? WRONG! A security surveillance firm is using Microsoft’s Kinect to a
The president is campaigning inside Madden 2013
We think of our president as a basketball guy, but he’ll be asking for your vote in Madden this fall. Barack may be going for another term as president, but someone should let the guy know that DC, for the time being at least, is a monarchy. All hail Robert the Third!
This indie developer wants games to be spectator sports
A wonderful read from Leigh Alexander at Gamasutra, about Ramiro Corbetta, the maker of Hokra, a “minimalist digital sports game.”
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