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We’re not sure what to make of this one. Lisa looks to be a typical modern pixellated platformer, but it is actually a role-playing game. Does it treat the issue of torture irresponsibly, or is it a scathing criticism of its portrayal in media? And what about amputees? If the game’s set in a society
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Music is ineffable. Quoth Frank Zappa, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” This is doubly true for talking about abstract music games like Sentris, the symphonic puzzle about sliding colorful blocks into centrical patterns and creating beats. Case in point, after listening to a
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The brilliant game director Fumito Ueda has given us the beautiful, emotionally-challenging games Shadow of the Colossus and Ico. These are games that are held up as the pinnacle of expression in the medium, the brightest examples we have of art. With his unfinished project The Last Guardian and bre
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We hear that The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, out tomorrow, is pretty difficult. So difficult in fact that Nintendo included player-versus-player. What the crap? Could a punishing, confrontational direction be the way the series is moving? Not just yet. For now, the game allows you to se
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Videogames are addictive, mood-altering, controller-smashing, grotesquely violent activities. That’s why we love them! But should we be concerned that gaming is fostering a legion of future sociopaths? Of course we should. But a study published by the University of Glasgow suggests that there is no
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Tuesday, bitcoin—the online currency whose had a recent date with Congress—reached an all-time high, hitting a value of $900. Of course there are risks associated with the boom. It’s so volatile that it’s foolish to list its current asking price, which can swing by fifty percent in an afternoon. Ano
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Admit it. If you’ve played a sports game, you’ve cussed at the ref. But with the new cuss-monitoring feature in NBA 2K14, you’d be wise to keep the potty language under your breath. The game uses voice recognition to listen out for profanity, and will call a technical foul when you go into a mini-ta
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As rap feuds have taught us, the extracurricular jawing between artists can be just as entertaining as the music. But unless Phil Fish is involved, smack talk doesn’t happen very often in gaming. Until yesterday. That’s when Pippin Barr called out Cactus’s hit Hotline Miami for being irrationally br
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In the music industry, artists copy other artists’ work all the time. It’s called a cover song. But with games, any sign of infringement is hit with a cease-and-desist order. That is, unless your reinvention is nice and shiny, and was previously made by Valve. Today, the fan-driven community respons
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A new shell converts your iPhone into a more traditional gaming handheld, giving it all the buttons you’d ever need. This is by our count seven or eight too many. Persuaded by a vocal minority who resist change, Apple recently added controller support to their phones. The PowerShell by LogiTech is
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An internet user has taken it upon himself to give the P.C. version of Deadly Premonition a higher graphical resolution, upgrading it from the standard 720p. Our question is: Why would you want to do that? In case you need an introduction, Deadly Premonition was a B-game that gained a cult following
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The selfie needs no introduction. Even my mom—hi, mom!—knows what it is. That’s why the Oxford English Dictionary has named “selfie” the 2013 word of the year, defining it as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media w