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This videogame gets its art style from 15th century woodcuts
The danse macabre finds a new host.
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Africa is not a country, unless you’re a videogame developer, apparently
Here’s an idea: If your blog post announcing a game set in ‘Africa’ doesn’t name a single country, it probably needs another edit. To wit, here’s a choice passage from Positech Games’ announcement for Democracy 3: Africa: In the west, we tend to think of Africa as either the target of charity fund-r
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Crow money, crow problems
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Crowtel (PC) BY Sinks Imagine this: you’re just another crow hotel manager, living their simple life and minding their own business. You don’t want to be the next Ritz Carlton or anything—you
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There may still be joy to be found in racing games
I spent the first 11 years of my life reading used car listings and saving up for my first set of wheels. I spent the next four months of my life burning all of these car savings on arcade racers, a relationship that burned so bright and fast that I have never since felt the urge to learn how to dri
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Mason Lindroth’s "walking simulator" is a thing of surreal beauty
Mason Lindroth’s videogames have always appealed at first look. You may extend that to ‘first feel’ too, given that they’re usually made of squirming clay and chopped-up degenerated photos; time and again, uniquely and gloriously tactile. But let’s stick with that initial love at first sight idea. I
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Videogame dadification takes a delightful turn for the bizarre in Dad Quest
IRL dads are basically super human. In fact, there’s an entire subreddit dedicated to dad reflexes because they are so outside the realm of normal human capabilities that their special powers only activate once the fruit of one’s loins is threatened by malicious gravity and the like. Perhaps this ex
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Meditative Anxiety is a strange marriage of music, static, and colors
Playing it by Ear in Meditative Anxiety
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Travel back in time with the 1994 Texas budget simulator
The workings of a democracy are never pretty, but in 1994 the process of governmental sausage making couldn’t even be cloaked in a sleek interface. In the spirit of remembering those halcyon days, feast your eyes on the 1994 Texas Budget Simulator created by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public A
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The Paris Review publishes world’s first game about a memoir about games
Traditional print publications dip into the world of game-making to review Michael W. Clune’s Gamelife
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