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Sunset preview hints at a story told in small details
More history needs to be told around the margins.
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Telltale’s Game of Thrones attempts to play nice with HBO’s version
Something strange happens when we can only explore Westeros as one family.
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Beeswing explores what it means to go home again, with mixed results
A game as lovely as it is cloying.
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We talk to Tale of Tales about sunsets, revolutions, and reflections
“I’m someone that believes people should think of revolution as a good thing.”
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Lisa makes a monster out of you
Fulfilling the primal need for violence and glistening bodies.
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If the items in your suitcase could talk, what stories would they tell?
Terry Cavanagh’s latest freeware game explores the narrative of move out day.
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What is Master Hand and why does it hate us?
Conspiracy theorists, get out your pencils.
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Sweden’s sexism test for games is a great idea
Godspeed, Dataspelsbranchen!
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John Darnielle tackles pen-and-paper RPGs and suicide in his debut novel
Wolf in White Van is a meditation on not knowing.
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Dream of this week’s playlist pick
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. THE SAILOR’S DREAM (iOS) BY SIMOGO Simogo’s previous games Year Walk and Device 6 put richly detailed spins on recognizable frameworks: point-and-click adventure, interactive fiction. But The
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Games could learn a thing or two from confessional poetry’s history
How confessional gaming is slowly growing a presence.
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Explore a town founded by Peruvian desert witches in Cachiche
Ecstatic truths abound.