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Twitch.tv is utilizing the pull of nostalgia to comment on the futile optimism of an absolute democracy. Or at least that’s the sense we’re getting from the live stream, crowd-sourced playthrough of Pokémon Red/Blue. Just us? Well a Gameboy emulator converts an endless scroll of text-based commands
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There is a new Bayonetta trailer which features everything you loved and/or hated about Bayonetta. Convoluted mythology? Enormous golden animals? Skittering loungey J-pop? Gross oversexualization? All here. The first game was surprisingly lengthy, particularly if you explored its higher difficulty s
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“Into the Frame” is a project by researchers at Middlesex University on display at the Red Gallery in London’s Shoreditch neighborhood. The futuristic installation allows viewers (or rather, experiencers) of a painting to immerse themselves in the work through touch and sound, extending past the typ
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Up till now, CCP Games has been all about EVE Online. Their other projects have been spinoffs: an EVE FPS, an EVE boardgame, an FPS set in the world of EVE. That’s fine, really, as EVE is the preeminent work of sci-fi of this young century. But their interests go beyond null-secs and space frigates.
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Games generate an active community of enthusiastic fans, which is great. Except when it’s not so great. In recent times, we’ve seen the ill effects of disgruntled gamers take a toll on creators, from online mobs picketing over the ending to Mass Effect 3 because they didn’t agree with the BioWare’s
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There are many reasons Monolith’s X looks great, epic dinosaur battles against majestic backdrops being the least of them. One, it borrows and expands on the battle system of its predecessor Xenoblade, and anyone who has wielded that beast knows it’s like trying to walk a large and excitable dog on
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Despite being the locale for one of our favorite games of last year, traveling to Arstotzka is probably not advised. However, it’s a fine place to go to war, now that a modder has created the fictional state in the Brave New World expansion of Civilization 5. The beautiful thing here, aside from th
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We’ve been graced with a new trailer for The Blackwell Epiphany, the fifth and final game in Wadjet Eye Games’ long-running series about a dejected, undead detective investigating suicides and occult objects. That’s one reason why people love this series: the plot is mature and intricate and long. T
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A glitched-out cat doing standup. A pooping pile of poop with stick legs. A cute plastic frog porn star, who looks like a friendly neighbor from Animal Crossing. These are but a few of the bizarre cartoon characters that you can possess in Character Mirror, the virtual reality “thing” by the awesome
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Yesterday, Respawn blew the lid off Titanfall, and the net is currently drowning in footage of man-versus-machine death matches, as is wont to happen. Also, we learned a few things about game resolution and battle modes. Importantly, there will be mecha-on-mecha action. But mostly we got to see thin
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