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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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Memoir En Code, or how to sell yourself through a videogame
“The more you play, the more you know me.” This is the line that hammers out, a single word at a time, every time you open up Alex Camilleri’s autobiographical game album Memoir En Code. It strikes me as an odd objective for a creator to imply to their audience. But, as I think about it, I realize t
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Pathologic Classic’s new trailer is how videogame trailers should be done
Pathologic Classic HD, the remaster of Ice-Pick Lodge’s classic horror game, is out and along with it, a brand new trailer. It’s exactly what a trailer for a game like this should be: a long, slow montage of people and places, monuments and landscapes recognizable to loyal fans, but foreign to those
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Cibele captures all the awkward intimacy of digital love
The fickle, ephemeral love of the online boyfriend.
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Hotline Bling is now an actual hotline. Thanks, Justin Bieber
I can’t say that I ever imagined myself as a late-night hotline customer. I can definitely say that I never imagined myself as a late-night Justin Bieber hotline customer. But last Friday night I found myself dialing 231-371-1113 from my bedroom to hear the little terror’s cover of Drake’s “Hotline
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What are the most common places used in horror games?
The architecture of our fears.
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The first few minutes of Below shows the start of a legendary adventure
Exploring the depths of a cavernous island, a tiny warrior rigorously battles their way through the unknown, struggling against a stream of enemies. The story of a small hero up against a dark scary world isn’t a new concept, but it’s a powerful one. In Below, this concept is put into practice, and
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Cannibal western Bone Tomahawk is savage, essential Halloween viewing
The last road to hell.
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It’s okay. Lego was never your friend anyway
Corporations are not your friends. Case in point: Lego recently refused to ship a bulk order to artist Ai Weiwei citing a longstanding policy of not directly providing pieces to those who seek to make political statements. Ai took to Instagram to declare: “Lego’s refusal to sell its product to the a
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2Dark, the next game from Alone in the Dark creator, gets a classically horrific trailer
You know when a horror game or trailer for a game pulls out the creepy little girl lullaby music, it’s a sure sign that shit’s about to get real—too real. 2Dark, the next project from creator of the classic Alone in the Dark series, Frédérick Raynal, knows his game is supposed to be a hokey, fun-sca
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Play the platformer hidden behind your desktop
Did you know that there’s an entire platformer hidden beneath your desktop? Alright, it isn’t there right now. But if you go ahead and download Simon Milfred’s game Omni there will be. It brings a delightful twist to the windows that we use to peer into software and the internet on our PCs. The idea
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Slack’s error page is actually an interactive scene from a defunct game
It wasn’t long ago that working in America was defined by a common image: people gathering around an office water cooler every morning to drink coffee and discuss the latest episode of shows like Dancing with the Stars (team Bindi, by the way). However, with 1 in 5 Americans now working from home th