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Sit by the fire and listen to The Lion’s Song
A meditative Ludum Dare entry conjures the spirits of de Palma and von Trier.
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The lovely Moon Hunters wants to bring ritual back to modern society
“Stories in games share the oral tradition’s tendency toward dynamic, action-oriented, and branching narratives.”
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Floppy disk portraits remind us that one day we’ll be outdated and discarded too
Useless junk has feelings too!
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I played Swing Copters for an hour and all I got was this lousy sense of depression
Also some medals, a new hat, etc.
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Whiteout brings you closer to the mysticism of Antarctica
You have flags, a campfire, and warm clothing. Now, explore Antarctica “In Whiteout, I was forced into the same frosty solitude as my character.”
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Amazon’s Twitch acquisition shows games are still cultural underachievers
Ignore games at your own peril.
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Imagining the apocalypse of The Day Google Street View Stood Still
If you’re like me, you’re someone who has a sneaking suspicion that Google will be our benevolent overlords by 2020. Google maps is tracking your every move. The company recently became armed with robots. And Google Street View has apparently figured out time travel technology (kind of). When Google
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New Threes! poster goes against the grain
Cory Schmitz tackles Asher Vollmer’s iOS hit and others
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Titan Souls drops a new trailer on you, killing you instantly
We’ve been watching Titan Souls since it emerged from Ludum Dare last year, a slim, four-boss experience made in three days that nevertheless featured remarkably confident art direction, music, and pacing. (In fact, we gave it a Playlist nod as soon as it emerged.) It has since septupled in size, th
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How would Stanley Kubrick make a videogame? Ask Jack de Quidt.
On the beauty of mundanity, the long take, and slow videogames.
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Death’s Gambit isn’t the strictly horizontal game it looks like
Following the White Rabbit.
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Virtual reality will save games from itself
Do we really want to be scared?