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Say what you will about President Obama, he is currently the world’s most prominent ambassador for the cultural legitimacy of videogames. That’s because on his recent visit to Poland, motherland of Witcher dev house CD Projekt RED, he gave a tip of the hat to everyone’s favorite action-heavy, decisi
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Occasionally as gross as it seems.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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