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Comic Sans is dead; long live these new, game-inspired fonts
Read up on it.
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Creators of Unfinished Swan reveal latest project with an eerie trailer
And they insist it isn’t a horror game, even though it might still scare you.
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Devs With Ferguson bundle joins the national chorus of protest
Nine games for nine dollars for the Ferguson Public Library.
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Conquest dives into the grim side of space exploration
For those that don’t have three hours to sit through Christopher Nolan’s bombastic Interstellar, Outlands may provide an alluring Cliff’s Notes. The brief title gives its own interpretation of the dark side of space exploration and its victims. In it, you wander a planar base, waiting for a ship to
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Infini-Quest teaches us to focus on the journey, not the destination
You’ve done it, haven’t you? Of course you have—you’re a human being, and more than that, one who has the spoils of modern living out to entertain you at every corner. It all became a noise to you at one point, didn’t it? You were lost; tragically you’d say, in the toils of a life yet to be lived.
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We talk to the creator of the dude-butt sensation Hurt Me Plenty
Consent has never looked so sexy.
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Video Game: The Game is a flashy, joyous, bullet-hell parody
Beware of flashing lights and flying coins.
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This short film celebrates the beauty of space
In space, no one can hear you gawk.
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Fall in Love with the adorable outer-space pets of Cube and Me
“Fine, if I can’t have a puppy, then can I at least get an outer space cube-alien for Christmas?” Cube and Me is the pet sim/dungeon crawler that looks like companion cube had a bunch of badass babies.
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A glimpse into the low-poly future, where no one sits and everyone is attractive
This sprawling polygonal blot is the work of the architecture firm RAAAF and the visual artist Barbara Visser, and, while it sort of looks like a laser-tag course or the Aggro Crag or something, it is in fact a vision of a healthier, happier future. We all know that sitting down all day is unhealthy
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MURDER turns a playground game into Shakespearian regicide
Shakespeare may have spoiled the concept of regicide for everyone with Macbeth. We associate the term with the murder of a king, which is its correct meaning, but more specifically there might be an expectation for this murder to be part of a violent and very personal usurping of that king.
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A video handily explains all the wonderful things videogames do for your brain
It’s well-documented at this point that playing videogames has an effect on your brain. It’s just what effect, exactly, that scientists haven’t quite figured out. Something to do with decision-making and sensory awareness, right? But it’s a step toward appreciating games for what they are—valuable i