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Double Hitler is Octodad for Nazis
As hilarious as that might be!
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Austrian design collective builds play structure to take strings to new heights
Numen builds a free-form climbing gym
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Here’s how Shovel Knight devs made the first modern NES game
The discourse around Shovel Knight, the chivalrous and retrofitted platformer released earlier in the week for Wii U, 3DS, and Steam, is that it’s a NES game developed a few decades after the fact—very reminiscent of blasting renegade robots with Mega Man or pogo-hopping on a cane with Scrooge McDuc
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David O’Reilly’s colossal simulator Mountain rises on July 1st
Future forward director and Her videogame creator announces first effort
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With the KOR-FX gaming vest, being shot never felt so good
Have you ever thought to yourself that shooters would be so much cooler if it actually felt like you were being shot? No, of course not, because that would involve pain and really hurt. But the KOR-FX (pronounced core-effects) delivers the experience of being sprayed with bullets painlessly, the tac
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Photos from urban exploration at foreclosed Neverland Ranch are as bizarre as you’d think
Neverland Ranch was closed by authorities in 2006 after Michael Jackson, who was lying low in Bahrain after being cleared of molestation charges, failed to pay employees. A few years later it went into foreclosure. In the process, the pop star’s private Disneyland degenerated into a ghost town of an
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New PBS Game/Show asks if Twitch is actually making us worse at games
We’re all in agreement that Twitch is a beautiful thing. The ability to display your skills while streaming games in front of a live audience on the Internet has proven endlessly entertaining. There’s no denying that. But here’s the rub: what if all those eyes intensely glaring at their screens jus
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There’s a lot more to No Man’s Sky than drifting infinitely through space
As we’re reminded in this mini-documentary, No Man’s Sky’s universe will be approximately the size of God. Here, project lead Sean Murray of Hello Games talks headily about how the game will let you discover a universe with a limitless number of planets the actual size of Earth. This sounds great fr
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An unlikely partnership forms in LA Cops
On the verge of retirement …
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Photos from Norilsk, the ruined Russian city that’s basically Metro 2033 in real-life
Norilsk was founded as a Siberian Gulag in 1935, and, as you can see in these desolate photographs of the remote Russian city, located in the Arctic Circle, since then things have somehow gotten worse. Photographer Elena Chernyshova’s “Days of Night – Nights of Day” photo series of this foreboding
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How Ready Steady Play makes a cowboy massacre adorable
One part Cleese, one part audio design.
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Here comes Google’s cardboard, DIY alternative to Oculus Rift
Apparently, you don’t need a hefty black face-mask with rubber straps to access the constructs of virtual reality. All you need is a sheet of cardboard, an Android phone, and a little ingenuity. Oh yeah, and you’ll need Google’s new app Cardboard, which, when run on a mobile situated inside a homem