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Paris’ abandoned subways to be turned into awesome underground entertainment venues
Mayoral candidate Nathalie Kosciusk-Morizet has proposed to turn the city’s ghost stations into a restaurant, nightclub, and even a theater.
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Persona 5 director reveals that, yes, the game will be dark
If you’re like me you spent a half-morning back in November watching and re-watching the mysterious announcement trailer for Persona 5, trying to cut through the thick layer of symbolism, and still thinking about it later that day on a quiet car ride. A new interview with longstanding Persona direct
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Find out what happens when you kill time in Sluggish Morss: Ad Infinitum
Hang out responsibly.
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Fract is what a videogame by Kraftwerk would probably look like
Partly a synthesizer, and partly a puzzle game, Fract is essentially Portal meets Kraftwerk. What I mean by that is you’re lost in a broken machine-world and play with glow-y neon sounds. And while it’s hard to compare any electronic music anywhere to the canonized output of Ralf Hütter and Florian
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This asteroid-zapping game might cure cancer
The free mobile game Play to Cure: Genes in Space was created at a madcap game jam hosted by Cancer Research UK to do just that: research cancer. You can get it for Android here and iPhone there and start blasting your way towards a cure. But listen how it works first. The human genome is teeny tiny
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New Thief trailer features adult situations, thievery
Thieves will do what they do. And that’s getting nude, using strong language, finding themselves in a strong sexual context, using drugs, and committing violence. Wait, that’s just the ESRB disclaimer. In between those things, apparently, it seems the thief in Thief swings back and forth between sne
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Nevermind, the survival-horror game that feeds on biofeedback, goes to Kickstarter
Most scary games just want to scare you, but Nevermind wants to scare you and then help you manage your anxiety. The concept for this white-knuckled first-person experience is really cool, taking advantage of biofeedback not just for self-help, but actually to adjust the thrills and chills as you pl
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Devastating footage of four guys racing each other through Super Meat Boy
Super Meat Boy is a ridiculously hard game that requires pinpoint jumping and the accuracy of a world-champion dart player (assuming that there is a world championship of darts). So when Something Awful forum members hosted “The Super Meat Boy Races,” a competition to see who could race through it t
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EVE players get the august monument they deserve
Iceland will soon be receiving a dazzling piece of modern art, as CCP, creators of the persistently-hostile online world EVE, are erecting in downtown Reykjavik a monument to the players. The 15-foot-tall structure looks straight out of Battlestar Galactica and will have the names of the main charac
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Deaf Resident Evil and Onimusha composer has been faking it all along
In a scandal on par with Milli Vanilli and Manti Te’o’s girlfriend, Mamoru Samuragoch, the composer of the soundtracks to Capcom’s Resident Evil Director’s Cut and for the Onimusha series, has owned up to not actually writing any of his music for the past fifteen years, since he went completely deaf
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Glitchspace has you create traversable spaces with a programming gun
Reforming space.
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Rain World is pretty much a .gif factory
We covered the post-apocalyptic jumper Rain World before. The plot eludes us but it seems sometime in the distant future slugs and cats become inseparably combined. The game crushed its funding goal on Kickstarter, because, well, slugcats (though after studying them closely I have a suspicion they’r