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Play of the Day: Gunman Clive is a cartoonish Western shooter of your dreams.
Video Swedish game designer Bertil Hörberg‘s Western homage to the side-scrollers of our youth is lovely little piece of mobile goodness. In the vein of classics like Rolling Thunder, the gameplay is quick and the rhythm is all about timing. It’s available for iOS and Android.
Here are four things the NYT "stupid games" story got right.
I’ve had a million people send me Sam Anderson’s NYT Mag cover story from this weekend on the allure of “stupid games.” Let’s be clear: I’m not particularly happy that a medium that I love appearing on the cover of one of the world’s most respected and powerful news institutions being referred to as
Cheat Sheet 4/5: Mass Effect’s DLC for the summer, Blizzard’s biggest SCII championship, and Amazon stepping up their game
Here we go again! – BioWare will be releasing the extended ending DLC for free this summer. – Blizzard has come up with a tournament to rule them all and decide once and for all who is the best at Starcraft II. – The PS3 has added Amazon Video service. In more Amazon news, they’ve just announced ga
How the crossover between Final Fantasy and Prada tells us more about clothing and culture.
The couture of Final Fantasy consists of characters with bountiful belt buckles who are overly zealous about zippers. This is what we’re accustomed to. The recent Final Fantasy XIII and Prada crossover however has gained a lot of buzz for how strange it is. The creative minds behind the project have
PAUSE: Check out these photos of the Strong Museum’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games.
The Strong Museum’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) is one of the largest repositories for the preservation of videogames and play. Check out Tom Callaway’s blog post for a rare view into the collection. Keep in mind it’s only a small glimpse into a collection of ove
The physics behind Angry Birds Space
With the recent release of Angry Birds Space, developer Rovio has taken the game in a new direction by reimagining the physics, making gravity subservient rather than overpowering. If you’ve ever been curious about just how their model of gravity stacks up to the real one, Wired writer Rhett Alain h
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