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Playlist 3/12: The Everloom sleepwalks, Towerfall Ascension powers up, and Out There drifts through space
Check out this week’s picks!
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Cadence lets you engineer musical architecture in 3D space
Music games and music creation tools tend to be a one way street, running straight forward from front to back. Each step of a sequencer lights up and then dims after the beat hits. And Guitar Hero is a forward scroll with no backsies. But Cadence is an intriguing music puzzle game and music generati
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ALZ’s glitch art pulses with tragedy
Human frailty, in videogame form.
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Shark Punch lets us relive our favorite scene from Zombi 2 in virtual reality
Shark Punch is one of those games where writing the words “Shark Punch” a couple of hundred times would suffice for the article. But I can’t do that, because editors. So, instead we’ll do a side-by-side of Shark Punch and the shark punching scene from the terribly awesome cult Italian gross-out Zomb
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This is what happens when the Internet blindly creates a work of art
My Holy Nacho is an artwork based on a misunderstanding. Originally it was to be called Moholy-Nagy, but that got wrongly translated as My Holy Nacho in a noisy drinking establishment, and the title stuck. That gave the artists Jamie Allen and Bernhard Garnicnig an idea. They purchased a sculptural
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Costume Quest 2 to make Halloween more whimsically endearing
Costume Quest was a sleeper of an RPG which traded in charm. And the second game in the series, announced yesterday, promises to be adorable too. And really how could it not be, with Tim Schafer and crew making a game about tikes trick-or-treating? This one is definitely filed under the “kids friend
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What Diablo 3 vets daydream of while calculating loot drops
Duelyst is spritely, tactical, and the sky is filled with cherry blossoms, pretty much the exact opposite of Diablo. That’s despite the fact that the project is headed by Keith Lee, lead producer of Diablo 3. You can just picture him at his desk at Blizzard staring off at some charts on loot drops w
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New international league brings Street Fighter a step closer to booking Staples Center
Fill out your brackets.
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The unofficial spiritual successor to Suikoden that fans have been waiting for
Celestian Tales: Old North has some distinctive Suikoden energies going on, and it is nearly funded on Kickstarter after only a week. Put those two facts together and you arrive at the actuality that a whole lot of people still love their grand pastoral adventures about semi-authentic ancient Asian
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Frozen Endzone might be the only football game I can endure
Robots, as usual, help.
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16-bit Fight Club is the best Fight Club
Fight Club belongs to that set of movies that successfully established Brad Pitt as a nutcase, along with Se7en and 12 Monkeys, that you saw and liked in high school, but never returned to because you a.) no longer trust your high school tastes b.) already know the twist ending c.) Brad Pitt is not
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Frog Fractions 2 has twice the frogs, twice the fractions, twice the 2s
The first thing you notice in the announcement video for Frog Fractions 2 on Kickstarter is the Frank Zappa level of oddness about it. The second thing is that there is no footage of the proposed sequel to the Internet sensation Frog Fractions. It could be anything. But you already expect this if yo