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Minecraft is an island unto itself, built entirely of square, earth-toned blocks. Though it’s one of the most successful games in history, you don’t see any other game quite like it. This is rare in an industry where borrowing ideas from others is the standard. Sure, there are legions of lesser copy
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This was bound to happen. You can only shoot so many guys in the face before you get tired of it and start screwing around with the formula. What this tech demo called Museum of Technology proves is that the possibilities are huge. But also incredibly small. The game pokes holes in your sense of sca
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Bokida looks like Minecraft as envisioned by trendy European graphic artists. Just imagine the premise was tweaked from building unsightly brick buildings to building Abstract Expressionist sculptures. Another difference is that the emphasis here is just as heavily on knocking things down as it is b
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Designers Monte Cook and Bruce Cordell want to take you places in their new game “The Strange“—their worlds, your own, and those of your favorite films, books, and video games.
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Ken Silverman spent his early adulthood hoping to voxels would make him the game generation’s Edison. Instead, he became its Tesla.
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The beleaguered SimCity has suffered a dent in its reputation after a shaky launch. But beyond the server woes and consumer complaints, a jewel of digital urban planning arises.
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Valve certainly aren’t gun-shy about ousting their best-known talent. Though critics and fans admiration of Portal approached adulation, designer Kim Swift soon parted ways with the company. And you might have heard that after only a year Jeri Ellsworth — the quirky electric engineer who began her c
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As games crossed over from niche pasttime to mainstream success, more and more world-class artists have lent their vision to the pursuit of digital leisure. Stephen Spielberg has put his fingers in many a game-pie, from 1995’s PC adventure The Dig to the unrealised project for EA, codenamed LMNO [ht