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Eliss Infinity is the reason we’ve been poking at our phones for years
Prepare to touch.
Challenge
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With 50 Short Games, thecatamites becomes the Robert Pollard of videogames
Burning quickly and brightly.
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PSA: Flappy Bird creator has other games to get addicted to, write thinkpieces about
The reaction and the reaction to the reaction to Flappy Bird continues to mystify. But what we should really care about are games, not online circuses. Right? So, let’s talk games. It just so happens Dong Nguyen has made a few more of those, two of which are still available for free on iTunes: Shuri
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Of course Terry Cavanagh made a tribute to Flappy Bird
We’re breaking our self-imposed Flappy Bird embargo because the game has inspired something awesome and new. Terry Cavanagh is known for making perversely challenging games like Super Hexagon. So it comes as no surprise that he made a game in honor of Flappy Bird, the little game that at this point
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Goodbye forever, Flappy Bird
May you flap in peace, higher and higher, sweet creature.
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Videogame design in an age of biological feedback
How a surplus of data can help and hurt creators.
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Devastating footage of four guys racing each other through Super Meat Boy
Super Meat Boy is a ridiculously hard game that requires pinpoint jumping and the accuracy of a world-champion dart player (assuming that there is a world championship of darts). So when Something Awful forum members hosted “The Super Meat Boy Races,” a competition to see who could race through it t
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A Story About My Uncle’s grappling hook looks like Metroid Prime’s, but doesn’t suck
I once went rappelling with my uncle. OK, that’s a lie. But if I had it would make a good conversation starter for A Story About My Uncle, which was announced for Steam yesterday. The game about first-person jumping through a forest with the assistance a glowing, mystical grappling device started ou
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La-Mulana 2 promises agony, confusion, and whip-cracking fun
The original La-Mulana was super-difficult doujin-ware made by a group of hobbyists from Osaka in 2006. It was never intended for mass consumption, a lovingly made yet punishingly hard throwback to the days of retro gaming, when games were abstruse, and tip-lines and the playground were a poor-man’s
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Lethal Frag and the lonely, growing world of livestreaming
We’d all like to quit our jobs and play videogames all day. Here’s a guy who did it.
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Majora’s Mask deconstructed with this very practical glitch
For screwy malfunctions that break games in unthinkable ways, glitches are pretty inspirational. That’s why I’m mighty impressed by this glitch in Majora’s Mask, discovered by YouTuber user Indextic, which allows for fast travel to any region in Hyrule from the outset of the game. If you think about
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Gran Turismo 6 is the racing game of our dreams
Holy hell this game is pretty.