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Spintires turns mud bogging into NeverEnding Story’s saddest scene
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Robot holds "instagram interventions" for oversharers, does god’s work in the process
TBT to when I didn’t see pictures of your breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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New trailer for The Official has modern workforce ennui, jaggy PS1-era polygons
The Official is another game about the angst of the work force. It’s based on that familiar daydream that anyone who sits behind at desk from 9-5 has doubtlessly imagined: the one where you fall asleep on your stack of papers and awake after hours alone in a strange alternate version of your office
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The holy grail of Tim Burton’s filmography surfaces, and boy is it bad
Once upon a time, Tim Burton didn’t just shoot odd films starring Johnny Depp. He shot the best Batman movie (that’s an objective fact), and, before that, in 1982, he shot a short, bad, non-children-friendly, and incredibly bizarre film adaptation of the Grimm Fairy Tale Hansel and Gretel. Now that
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Rollers of the Realm proves there’s still something left in RPG hybrids
Backstabbing pinballs!
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It sounds like Oculus wants to make Matrix plugs and holodecks a reality
Oculus—those far-seeing, Facebook-owned virtual reality devs—are peering even further into the future, to the time when we will all have Matrix jacks in our skulls and everyone owns a holodeck—the virtual reality cave from the Star Trek universe, not the Russian jelly mold. In a recent Reddit AMA wi
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Here’s an interesting study into the psyche of online gamers’ gender biases
This may come as a surprise to no one, but men and women are treated totally oppositely in online games. According a new study, the guys who are jerks in online shooters make plenty of friends, while unruly women, not so much. The takeaway in short is that online game communities support gender bias
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A Song for Viggo is to depression what a Michael Bay flick is to explosions
Now in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign, it’s basically the saddest game imaginable, a papercraft point-and-clicker with a hangdog piano soundtrack about the most doleful topic imaginable: parents who accidentally killed their kids. It’s also all really pretty and made by hand and folded from pa
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Tale of Tales’ new game lets you experience a rebellion through housework
How does it feel to be a victim of war instead of the hero?
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Anna Anthropy and Merritt Kopas’s new game is jilted love in deep space
If only breakups were as much fun to watch in real life as they are in deep space. SPACE/OFF is a bomb-dropping, laser-zapping spaceship battler inspired in equal parts by Star Control and DIY pixel art. It’s also a game for two about separating from the one you’d thought you’d spend forever with, o
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Ever wondered what internet lag looks like in real life?
More importantly, do you like watching people look stupid on the internet?
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FRU wants to break the Kinect out of its "party game" mold
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