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Apple rejects sex-ed game HappyPlayTime because it’s porn, apparently
Rack Stare is still cool, though.
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There are more ways to play DayZ than psychopath, apparently
This is the revelation I gained from the DayZ Character Dice Game Remix, a personality-rolling meta-game you play prior to logging in, with the numbers from your dice assigning you a specific mentality. Created by Reddit-users Conn3ct3d and Wingthree, the game casts you as either a hero, good guy,
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Second Lifestock is the free-range VR simulator our chickens deserve
Still awaiting: Eggcraft, Sheep Fortress, Dark Sows.
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This sea-faring sim lets you romance your crew or eat them. Your choice, really
With The Walking Dead and Gods will be Watching and now Sunless Sea, a dark and Melvillian account of life on the open ocean, cannibalism is quickly becoming the hot new trend in games. OK, maybe three games doesn’t exactly constitute a trend, but we’ll wait and see. The interesting thing about this
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Witchmarsh lets you hack-n-slash while pretending to learn about US history
Massachusetts in the Roaring ‘20s wasn’t just a place for drinking fermented cider beside the bonfire in waistcoats and coattails, apparently. It was also the perfect setting for the pixel-arty, grind-heavy, loot-filled, side-scrolling RPGs Witchmarsh. At least that’s what history according to video
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Fantastic drawings of Walt’s original, utopian vision for Disneyland
The original prospectus for Disneyland has been revealed, and jolly gee is it great. Boing Boing has gotten ahold of the 6-page written document that explains Walt’s mission statement in detail. The booklet is full of strange factoids that will tickle the fancy of any Disney fan, like how the park i
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And the finalists for best Euro-style board game of the year are…
Germany to boardgames, particularly “eurogames,” is like 1970s England was to punk, or post-WWI Paris was to Lost Generation literary works. It is the motherland, so it’s important to keep an eye on the German boardgame festival Spiel des Jahres. This year’s grand prize finalists include the very L
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At last, an Oculus Rift game where you can play Zelda on a crappy old TV
Visiting fantastic virtual worlds. Simulating amazing experiences you’ll never have in real-life. Having out-of-body experiences in cyberspace. Forget all that. What we really want to do in virtual reality is play old games. And that is exactly what the MemoRift project by Roy Lazarovich allows you
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Good news: Google is buying Twitch. Bad news: live-stream Let’s Plays
According to which news outlet you ask, it has either been reported, confirmed, or unable to be confirmed that Google is acquiring the ever-popular videogame streaming service Twitch for a cool billion. This is just the latest indicator of how ungodly huge people watching other people playing games
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We support your decision to spend all day fiddling with Google’s Rubik’s Cube
I don’t know exactly how many hours of productivity will be lost to the 3D, interactive Rubik’s cube that appeared overnight as Google’s latest doodle, but assuredly a lot. Cracking the code is no easy task, with today’s date May 19th commemorating the 519 quintillion ways you could possibly fail to
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World War Machine is like Diablo, but with hideous transhuman mecha
In the distant post-apocalyptic future, a war will be waged between grotesque mecha cobbled together from organic body parts, and it will be awesome. This post-apocalypse will also be fairly similar to Diablo, judging from this new trailer for World War Machine, a cool-looking loot-and-shoot-athon w
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How SUPERHOT became that Matrix videogame we always wanted
Behind the scenes of the ridiculously stylish game-to-be.