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Now you have no excuse not to play Dwarf Fortress
Isometric graphics, you are the future.
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Road Not Taken brings smart puzzles, adorable woodland creatures to PS4 August 6th
Developer Spry Fox is known for making brilliant, deep puzzle games with deceptively cutesy animals in them, and Road Not Taken looks like their most robust offering to date. Their area of expertise is not only in crafting ingenious puzzles, but also in experimenting with ways to make you feel emoti
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Watch this new MOCA documentary on how the FPS has evolved beyond shooting Nazis
We’ve written before about how the shooter genre is expanding into a wider variety of games that can do nicer things than shooting dudes in the head. We did a PBS Game/Show episode about that. Also, I collected interviews with the creators of games that use shooter mechanics in surprising ways, like
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The legal right to disappear from the Internet is now a reality
So long, Sea World photos.
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Space Email returns with all its absurdity, less the abuse
Back, with 100% less offensiveness, hopefully.
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These walls are literally breathing life into architecture
Maybe your high friend wasn’t imagining things.
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Darpa makes the cyberpunk fantasy of VR hacking a beautiful reality
Cyberspace is portrayed in works of sci-fi as a beautiful virtual world where hackers and cyber-criminals vie for the security of databases. In real life, the intrigues of cyber warfare are less appealing, reduced to some guys hunched over their laptop. But with Plan X, the experimental wing at DARP
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Playlist 6/25: Deceit, befuddlement, and shovels.
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There’s now a whole lot more women making games. Keep it up!
As we learn in a new survey from IGDA group, there are now twice as many women in the game industry than there were 5 years ago, in 2009. While this is progress, looking at the chart above is kind of sad. Specifically, you can also glean from the report that 22 percent of professional game-makers ar
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Star Citizen’s crowdfunding campaign now exceeds the GNP of Tuvalu
Star Citizen, the spiritual successor to Wing Commander, continues to inhale gobs of cash from the crowd, recently breaking the $47 million dollar mark, which is nuts. Passing this milestone gives players the added feature of engine tuning, allowing them to tinker around under the hood of their ship
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Okay our actual favorite story ever: Notch pays $46k for rare Aphex Twin album
Notch is just awesome. The creator of Minecraft has paid an outlandish sum of $46,300 at auction for an extremely rare, unreleased pressing of an album by electronic music pioneer Aphex Twin. The album first had emerged on an online auction site. The Internet freaked out because it was never-before-
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Take a dark trip into Russia on the Grim Express
Aptly named!