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Is Year Walk the first black metal game?

Sweden’s Simogo has conjured up something wicked and reminds our author of his favorite genre’s yesteryear.

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Jason Rohrer hid a board game in the Nevada desert. So we went looking for it.

There’s only one copy of A Game for Someone. And it’s buried somewhere in the Nevada badland.

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How Twin Peaks finds new life in the world of Deadly Premonition

Swery’s Deadly Premonition is getting its director’s cut this week. He has a lot to discuss with David Lynch. Perhaps over a cup of coffee?

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The Kill Screen Review: Monaco will steal your time and your heart

Andy Schatz’s long-awaited Monaco is a deft tribute to the heist film, but builds a world all its own.

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How a Guggenheim fellow obsessed over Atari’s Breakout — and found the future instead

David Sudnow’s Pigrim in the Microworld is a chronicle of an addiction to Breakout! Here’s why it’s important today.

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A survival horror game that puts you as a baby in a crib, Among the Sleep is only getting started.

A Norwegian studio captures the fear of childhood with the eeriest of intentions. Also, trolls!

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Is Sifteo the new Nintendo?

A rogue upstart from San Francisco wants to change the way we play.

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Nintendo is caught in a generation gap

The coming age war at the House of Mario.

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Introducing DRONE, an ethically-bending card game for the guilty American

Sonny Rae Tempest wants you to laugh at drone warfare. You’ll feel terrible about it. You should.

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After LucasArts closing, what does the future of adventure games look like? Tim Schafer, Dan Connors, & Dave Gilbert weigh in.

The best of the adventure genre, past, present and future, weigh in on lauded genre’s potential.

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REVIEW: Why Lego City Undercover is actually GTA for adults

An unexpected twist from TT Games as a open-world game marketed for children competes with the best of Rockstar’s marquee franchise.

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Why the Cave makes us the worst of Real Housewives

Why Ron Gilbert’s The Cave captures greed, desire, and humanity better than any reality show. TLC, eat your heart out.