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Here is a metroidvania that lets you explore the gnarled passageways of adolescence
Occasionally as gross as it seems.
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Palmer Luckey says VR will save us from our covetous consumerist lifestyles
At present, consumer-grade virtual reality is largely focused on putting you in a game space and blowing shit up, but it may one day be used to sate our appetite for luxury goods like Dior handbags and Audi R8s. That’s what Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said at an expo in California recently, getting
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First Dwarf Fortress update in 2 years will be cataclysmic to leagues of dwarfs
With its first update in two years coming later this month, Dwarf Fortress continues to burrow through the confusing, inhospitable, and endlessly fascinating mantle of middle earth. Among the new features are a long awaited update to the Adventure Mode, the game’s more accessible built-in roguelike
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Rockstar might be planning an alien invasion in Grand Theft Auto Online
Conclusive video evidence. Maybe.
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Travel through a grayscale apocalypse in Composition 83
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Nostalgic photos from deep inside Soviet Russia’s Space Age rocket town
This might go without saying, but Soviet Russia was completely nuts about space. You can tell they were gung-ho in these images of the Baikonur cosmodrome, the largest operating launch facility in the world, rarely seen by Western eyes. In fact the entire city of Baikonur—located in Kazakhstan (now
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20 years of dungeon-diving leads iconic roguelike to unfamiliar realm: Steam Greenlight
ADOM isn’t only a roguelike—those terse tactical fantasy games of yore that don’t play nice. It’s an institution. It’s been under development for 20 years (including a 9 year hiatus), is considered one of the big 5 (roguelikes, not accounting firms), and after many moons of open development it’s cam
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Because Mario Kart 8 released on a Friday, here are the rules to the best Mario Kart drinking game
For millions of college freshmen still living in the dorm room, Mario Kart isn’t merely a family-friendly kart racer featuring banana peel bloopers and a road-hogging anthropomorphous fungi. It is also a great way to get shit-faced. So with Mario Kart 8 releasing today Wii U, right before the weeken
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The ridiculous winning words to yesterday’s spelling bee championship
The Scripps National Spelling Bee, a.k.a. the spelling bee of spelling bees, ended in a two-way tie yesterday, with the winning lads both misspelling some ridiculously obscure words: “corpsbruder” (a comrade) and “antegropelos” (waterproof leggings) respectively. However, they did manage to correctl
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New PBS Game/Show asks if the FPS is dying or ascending
The first-person shooter had a good run. Ever since players got a taste of the recoil on Doom’s shotgun, the genre has been firmly planted at the forefront of the industry. They’ve consistently been the biggest moneymakers, pushed technical boundaries, and ushered us into in the era of online play.
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This videogame destroys itself to music, is nuts
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These warped playing cards bring the glitch aesthetic to royal flushes
Glitches in videogames happen all the time. Just go read The Sims patch notes. But we usually don’t find them in physical games, like board games, and card games, and hackisack, and thankfully so, because that would mean we’re living in the Matrix while some hideous inter-dimensional parasites feed