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The studio that fled publishers is now a publisher
thatgamecompany has launched thatgamepublisher, spending Sky: Children of the Light money on other people’s emotionally ambitious games.
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Thatgamecompany teases new multiplayer game “about giving” for 2017
Thatgamecompany has teased its next game after Journey (2012) with an image and the promise of its arrival in 2017. It’s also been confirmed that, unlike thatgamecompany’s previous three games—flOw (2006), Flower (2009), and Journey—it will not be exclusive to PlayStation platforms. The teases came
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Don’t hesitate to dive into Abzû
When I try to picture what the ocean depths must have looked like near England’s Jurassic Coast, 300 million years ago, I picture something like Van Gogh’s Starry Night (1889). I picture a space of stillness but also turbulent life, things moving ceaselessly in the restless dark; I picture everythin
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Our Saddest Gaming Moments
Four Kill Screen staffers on the games that broke their hearts.
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Get a load of the fluid, feminine power of Gris
As of right now, there’s not a lot of information about Gris. We know it’s a 2D game. We know it has “zones.” We know it stars a woman clad in a flowing cloak reminiscent of the main character in Journey (2012). We know it takes place in a surreal environment largely dominated by a Mars-like red, an
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Absolver is the low-poly, God Hand-inspired brawler of your dreams
It’s tempting to describe Absolver with an endless stream of references to other games—big ones, the type for which you see cardboard cutouts at GameStop. It’s an online multiplayer game riffing on the model of Destiny (2014) or Dark Souls (2011)—not, they clarify, an MMO—with players both friendly
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Dive into ABZÛ’s beautiful ocean world on August 2nd
ABZÛ has pinks, it has blues, it has greens, it has oranges. It has whales, jellyfish, angler fish, and dolphins. And all of it is going to flourish on your PlayStation 4 or PC on August 2nd. I can’t frickin’ wait. This is a game especially for those who, like me, have a penchant for underwater lev
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Announcing Failsafe, which sends you running through a Miyazaki-esque world
Failsafe recalls The Wind Waker, Journey and Mirror’s Edge.
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The powerless reality of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
An inability to interact with the world of Rapture forces players to pay attention.
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Journey’s greatest gift to videogames was telling us all to shut up
Journey returns to PS4, and with it, the gift of quiet
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The Hollow is an interactive fairytale that enchants you into doing bad things
Fairytales, for all their other virtues, tend to be pretty easy games to hack. All you have to do before you get started on your journey/quest/trek is ensure you’ve memorized the Three Essential Pro-tips for Surviving a Fairytale: If you either a) encounter three magical creatures/witches/beings, or
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This is sad: Tale of Tales is done making videogames
But their games live on as cultural touchstones.