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The brief, soaring flight of A Bird Story
A personal story, told through tiny movements.
Gone Home
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The belly of the whale: an early preview of Old City: Leviathan
Mankind swallowed up by its own arrogance.
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Curtain imagines a grim alternative ending to Gone Home
“The trash of adolescence is all around and your relationship is just as grim.” Curtain’s garish visuals reflect the abusive relationship at its heart
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Gone Home gets the retail release treatment, now comes in an old-school SNES box
Our favorite game of last year has unexpectedly gotten a physical release on DVD, which is perfect because one day many years from now your kid can find it on your shelf, boot it up, and have a very strange and metaphysical experience. “Gone Home is a story about a high schooler in the ’90s, and is
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The Moon Sliver is a chilling investigation into our greatest enemy
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Tale of Tales’ new game lets you experience a rebellion through housework
How does it feel to be a victim of war instead of the hero?
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Quadrilateral Cowboy is not the cyberpunk game you think it is
Brendon Chung’s jury-lauded hacking game Quadrilateral Cowboy is your archetypal cyberpunk game, right? You operate from a Matrix-like control room; it’s a game about hacking; the word “cowboy” is in the title; hover-bikes are a thing. But unlike sci-fi works that focus on sleek but oppressive tech
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Two5six: a day of videogames and culture and werewolves and donuts
You should’ve been there.
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Road to TWO5SIX: Steve Gaynor
The creator of last year’s watershed Gone Home discusses its wake.
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The charming, melancholy Night in the Woods picks up where Gone Home left off
Saying goodbye to everything.
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Kill Screen and Moog team up to explore the role of sound in videogames
As part of Moogfest, we’re arranging an afternoon of talks featuring people who worked on Nidhogg, Dance Central, Gone Home, and more. It’s gonna be awesome.
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Gone Home’s Steve Gaynor: "Being a gamer has a stigma to it."
This is something we’ve known forever, but the creator of Gone Home drove the point home and perhaps put the nail in the coffin. Talking today about narrative design, Gaynor made a subtle, but piercing call. In particular he was lamenting the fact that people who don’t play games but wanted to play