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An AI fish is the lead in Harold Hejazi's new stage game
Legend of Harri Kala opens October 9 in Espoo, Finland, where a Baltic grayling listens, answers and turns whatever the room says into that night's myth.
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In FAKE ME, your disguise starts as a blank block
Eren Can Metin and Emre Gökçe put the verbs of 3D modeling into a multiplayer hide-and-seek round.
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The LAN party revival makes public radio
KCRW sent Jennifer Swann to Paizley Lee’s roving Dead Internet Theory, where Angelenos haul towers and CRTs for the pleasure of one cable.
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TerminalDev's open-world city is drawn entirely in ASCII
A pseudonymous solo dev is building a multiplayer crime sandbox with no 3D models or shaders
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Daniel Aagentah is building an open world in raw JavaScript
Six months in, NOMIAD has no engine and no editor—just WebGL, multiplayer, and an artificial-life simulation running underneath.
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Antioch: Scarlet Bay’s multiplayer approach to storytelling seems fresh
Antioch: Scarlet Bay looks like it’s set to take storytelling in videogames in a worthwhile direction. Out on April 6th 2017 for iOS and Android, it’s an adventure game set in the titular dark metropolis where you play as a detective investigating a homicide. That’s not the cool bit. It’s the fact t
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BOTOLO doesn’t want to be like other competitive videogames
Ian Snyder is responsible for making one of my favorite games of 2014: The Floor is Jelly, a side-scrolling platformer that makes jumping more playful than ever. So many game makers try to reinvent the platformer by tweaking the jump—the distance, the speed, or the friction perhaps. But Snyder went
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Genital Jousting is now available for some stiff competition
It’s time to make some dicks look silly. Yep, Genital Jousting has arrived on Steam Early Access today. It’s an online and local multiplayer game about penetrating your friends, and yes, it’s as crude as that sounds. Everybody plays as a creature made of male genitalia in this game: a flaccid penis,
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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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Nidhogg 2 is going to eat you alive
Remember Nidhogg (2014)? Before its release there was whispers of it as the 2D fencing game that people just couldn’t stop playing. After its long-awaited arrival it made its way to other platforms, until it seemed to become nearly ubiquitous—its pixels once only glanced at now brash and animated in
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Botolo is all about the fluid poetry of 1v1 competition
The Floor Is Jelly (2014) creator Ian Snyder is working on a new game, Botolo—a competitive multiplayer title inspired by games like Street Fighter and Smash Bros. With Botolo, Snyder considered three aspects of competitive play: physical skill, mental skill, and game knowledge. Physical skill, “whe
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Meadow will let you and friends survive as a pack of animals
Might and Delight, the creator of the Shelter games, has announced its next project, and yes, it too has cute animal families trying to survive the wilderness. Called Meadow, it’s meant to improve upon some of the ideas explored in the two previous Shelter games, as well as add online multiplayer. I