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You had me at beautiful underwater game from Journey’s art director
Under the sea.
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Playdead’s sophomore effort somehow looks even more sinister than Limbo
Where do you go after opening with a haunting, beautiful, universally-praised smash like Limbo? Brilliant initial offerings are always notoriously tough to follow up, but it looks like there will be no sophomore slump from Playdead. Judging by the hot and hyperbole-worthy debut trailer for Inside, t
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Grim Fandango lives again on PlayStation. Viva la Revolución indeed!
Who saw this one coming? A shiny, new remastered version of Grim Fandango—the legendary game to feature a tux-wearing, Pall Mall-dragging skull man—is on its way to PS4 and Vita. For the uninitiated, Grim Fandango is an old, famous adventure game (from 1998) that carries an air of mystique for a co
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Are you a tool on social media?
#selfawareness
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How to recreate this morning’s Xbox press conference at home
Assimilation is inevitable.
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Where do videogame consoles go when they die?
A new art project sheds some light.
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This modder continues to blow away Skyrim’s lackluster artificial intelligence
We’ve written before about how the modder Ether Dynamics is outclassing Skyrim devs by giving foes with one-track-mind AI a broader variety of ways to bring the pain. As he rightly explains, “No one reminisces about the 10 skeletons they killed, because they’ll be just like every other skeleton they
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This week in VR demos: an Italian opera & flailing a tablet to flap the wings of a devious demon
While you’re waiting with baited breath for the big news out of Los Angeles, we thought why not catch up on the weekend’s crop of outrageous virtual reality demos, which seem destined to encompass every possible human and non-human endeavor. The first up is Senza Peso, a beautiful looking and sound
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Notch’s new one is either satire of Steam Early Access, or just a game about horses
Cliffhorse—Notch’s new horse-trotting sim where all you do is run over green hills—is perhaps a riveting work of irony ridiculing lazy, unfinished games on Steam Early Access. Or maybe the Minecraft creator just has a thing for horses walking sideways on cliffs. Either way, it’s a new game from Notc
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Torment your friends with this DIY Dune Pain Box
Something tells me this isn’t Frank Herbert’s official explanation for how the Pain Box in Dune works; but nevertheless, here’s a method for building your very own ad hoc phantom pain container, perfect for coaxing your lily-livered friends and children to sticking their trembling hand into. The en
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13-year-old boy AI passes Turing Test, much to the chagrin of actual 13-year-old boys
Alan Turing: check and mate. This past weekend at the 2014 Turing Test in London, a group of judges were fooled into thinking that a chatbot was in fact a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Goostman, proof computers are getting smarter or humans are getting dumber. Experts are hailing the genuinely believ
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Look out hackers, the Queen has a blood vendetta against you
The Queen has proposed a stern lifetime sentence for cyber-attackers within the British state, so don’t get any bright ideas from game sessions of Watch Dogs, Englanders. In a recent speech, the sovereign revealed a crime bill that hackers whose digital troublemaking results in “loss of life, seriou