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Can you remember Dexter’s morning routine? Prove it in this videogame
Play through a breakfast for murderous champions.
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An experimental game series questions the value of player choice
Do games overstate the importance of player choice?
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Gameplay becomes a musical instrument in Sound System II
What does a videogame sound like? That’s the question Pippin Barr has been trialing as of late. It might seem absurd at first—we know what games sound like, don’t we?—but he doesn’t refer to diegetic sounds or sound effects that go towards making a convincing world. What he is interested in is the i
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Dämmerung muses on the rationale of government torture practices
You may remember that the US Senate intelligence committee released a report on secret CIA torture practices last year. It spanned hundreds of pages and concerned the seven years after the 9/11 terror attacks. The felling of the World Trade Center, and the Bush-era invasion of Iraq, was presumably u
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Beat business-savvy hipsters at their own game, or die trying
They Live’s attack on commercialism updated for today
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Enter, Stage Right makes a performance out of overcoming anxiety
There’s no tutorial for dealing with anxiety.
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The AI in Fire Theft only wants to be your friend, and it’s adorable
Fear of artificial intelligence seems to be on everyone’s lips lately, especially since Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates publicly stated that it will be humanity’s certain doom (I’m paraphrasing). Yet, while technological singularity remains one of sci-fi’s favorite villains, movies like H
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Understand a priceless Kandinsky artwork better by absolutely wrecking it
It’s all done by clicking.
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Hitchhike across a small-town conspiracy in The Long Way
Last year, games such as Glitchhikers and Three Fourths Home addressed us from behind somber masks as we drove down their lonesome roads. The former took us on a spiritual journey to have us question the direction our lives were headed. While the latter acted as more of a reminder to continue to tre
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Tokyo 1923 conveys one of Japan’s worst natural disasters
In reading Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa’s memories of the Great Kant? earthquake of 1923, there appear two images more striking than the rest. The first one is the bloated corpses that lapped up against the bank of Sumidagawa River: a dirty red assemblage of death that made Kurosawa’s knees
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The destructive marriage of videogames and relationships
Driving through the ruins of a romance.
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What if music controlled a videogame instead of the player?
Perhaps videogames could be more like videos than games.