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When You’re Gone, the game about breakup-purgatory
Or as we like to call it, Assassin’s Creed: The Breakup.
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Boomshakalaka!
This new art exhibit puts a human face on hard steel
The Barbican Centre, located on Silk Street in the City of London, is one of the largest performing arts centers in Europe. (The smallest is Captain Franko’s Fantabulous Flea Circus in Covent Garden.) Until January 11th, 2015, the venue is hosting an exhibit called “Constructing Worlds: Photography
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This thread devoted to videogame scanlines is a reason to wake up in the morning
“Scanline screenshot thread. Because 240p is all the p’s I need.” Thus begins NeoGAFfer Peltz’s thread devoted to capturing pre-HD games using pre-HD equipment. Now at 6 pages and over 250 posts, scanning through is a coffee-break-long crash course in the ongoing defetishization of high-definition e
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Mediterranean Voidland transports you to a virtual slice of paradise
A low-poly marvel.
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The beautiful augmented reality dreamscape of Wuxia the Fox
Eight years ago, around the time when the word “transmedia” first started getting tossed around, Jonathan Belisle began collecting his dreams into an ill-defined storyworld. “I started writing the story of a young girl named Oremia, who dreamed about whales. It was nothing structured. Mostly an aggr
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Sit around gassing Lone Star beers and mumbling about the universe in INGONGA
Like everyone else, I liked True Detective. But I loved it for awhile there, namely the first four episodes: the relentless, pitch-black tenor, the delirious, psychedelic colors, and the subtlety of its New Orleans neo-voodoo noir. It pretty much hit that big episode-four tracking shot—which, in the
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Joi Ito wants you to play more
Disobedience is good for you.
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The heartache of a breakup in videogame vignettes
If the immediate seconds following a breakup were a videogame, this would be it.
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Just in time for the holidays, a videogame that guilts you like your family
I swear to GOD Grandma, can you just listen to me for once in your life?? You Never Call is the family guilt trip we all need to revisit. Bring the family back together (even if it kills you) in You Never Call.
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Mineblock Kickstarts its way to a kid-friendly Minecraft experience
Griefers be gone!
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Eitr’s trailer recalls the pitch-black world of Diablo II
The Gothic masterpiece that was Diablo II, the one that I willingly gave away much of my youth to, was perhaps most notable because of its atmosphere. It was a shadowy world, brown lands fading into a black background, full of occult sacrifices, lo-fi gore and legions of grotesque demons. Horror loo
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You can only play Kentucky Route Zero’s third interlude by dialing this phone number
The mysteries, they multiply.