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Storybundle brings a stellar holiday collection of games writing
Do ereaders dream of electric stocking stuffers?
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Chaos Reborn, from the maker of X-COM, is playable now
Chaos Reborn, the latest entry into the tactical turn-based strategy genre from Julian Gollop, creator of the X-COM series, is now available for early access Steam. The current lineup of features in this boardgame-meets-Magic: The Gathering title is austere, as only online multiplayer is available.
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Peter Padder Pauleypop reminds players why being a grown up is totally depressing
Take a deep dive into this anguished love letter to SNES Final Fantasy games.
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The uncompromising Alien: Isolation just got uncompromising-er
There are two things to know about Alien: Isolation, the Creative Assembly horror game from earlier this year based on the long-running Alien series of films. The first thing to know is that it is really, really, really good-looking. The gone-to-shit space station you explore is bafflingly dense and
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Finally, comeuppance for zoning out on mass transportation
Hereafter referred to as the tube.
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Introducing Aviary Attorney, a game about a bird lawyer
Hatoful Boyfriend goes to court.
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The triumphant return of 5734L3R, one of the most beautiful pieces of vaporware ever
Cyberpunk as a texture.
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This glitch art recreates the hell of cubicle work
Glitch art comes in all shapes and sizes, and much of it is very, very bad. (Google it and you’ll see a lot of low-rent ghost imagery and, um, that one dreamy picture of Kurt Cobain?) The work of Wayne Edson Bryan cuts a different figure, though. It starts with process: Bryan actually hand-makes the
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A quick update from the uncanny valley, courtesy of this Scottish Mafioso
“Just blink if yer gettin’ this.”
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The next time someone doesn’t understand systemic prejudice, send them this game
Procedural rhetoric is at its finest in Parable of the Polygons.
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For the child who hates everything, consider this demonic giraffe toy
Earlier this year the Evilstick made the rounds: a small pink wand bought for a dollar in Dayton, Ohio, which contained a horrifying image of a demon-child slicing her wrist inside. (Snopes has since verified it, so it has to be true.) My favorite part of that story was the reaction of the store’s o
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Secret Habitat explores the phenomena of procedural art
“Emptiness grows,” it is stated at the beginning of the game.