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The alluring deathscapes of Feist
After the better part of a decade of development, Feist comes out to kill you.
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Death, difficulty, and Disney’s Aladdin
Some art is endured; other art is conquered.
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The uncompromising Alien: Isolation just got uncompromising-er
There are two things to know about Alien: Isolation, the Creative Assembly horror game from earlier this year based on the long-running Alien series of films. The first thing to know is that it is really, really, really good-looking. The gone-to-shit space station you explore is bafflingly dense and
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Only If isn’t interested in playing nice
And we in turn are not interested in playing it.
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Send adorable adventurers to their sprightly little deaths in Lucky Frame’s new game
The roguelike gets a twist, again.
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The agony and the ecstasy of Aban Hawkins & the 1001 Spikes
Know death.
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Still hard as crap, but Titan Souls is burgeoning into a big beautiful game
The Dark Souls de-make becomes its own thing.
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Super Time Force is obsessed with the past
Finding beauty in revisiting.
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Kirby Triple Deluxe tests the blob’s boundaries
I did not inhale.
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Watch speedrunners obliterate Half-Life in 20 minutes 41 seconds
Okay, so you’ve beaten Half-Life like 15 years ago and felt pretty good about yourself. But these guys just beat it in 20 minutes 41 seconds. Well, the word “just” is a bit of an exaggeration. The speedrun, posted on YouTube recently, was the result of four years of “painstaking theorycrafting, exec
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Label Gear Solid turns the stealth game into a lesson on queer identity
One wonders how Snake would fare.
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Symmetrain makes the spot-the-difference genre super hard
Relax hard.