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Pippin Barr parodies your favorite indie hit, Dragons are Doubled (Again), and Pill-Popping for points
Don’t Worry. We Got You.
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So long LucasArts, Jet Li endorses pro gaming, and Facebook phone humor
Long-time film critic and videogame antagonist Roger Ebert passed away. Our condolences to his family. (More on him later!) Jet Li can kick your ass and beat you in videogames. Life is so not fair. Two parties have settled their Killer Instinct trademark feud. Bring on the remake, and the Sabrewulf
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Slayers proves the Ouya belongs in the living room
When Jo Lammert from White Whale Games handed me a controller to play Slayers, she might as well have stolen a C-note from my wallet. – – – The transaction was like a good Pixar joke: To her, she was giving me a fun thing to play; to me, I saw the act though an adult’s eyes, calculating investment a
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A Rumble in the Bronx, the followup to Papo & Yo, and Solid Snake loses his voice (actor)
Yes, there’s an old-school brawler starring graffiti artists from the Lower East Side. I <3 NY. Papo & Yo creator Vander Caballero has revealed Silent Enemy, a game that takes on the ills of bullying, so have the tissue paper handy. – – – We now know the complete lineup of launch games for Ouya. Ch
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Lil Wayne samples Assassin’s Creed, ECCO reboots, and a boardgame buried in the Nevada desert!
Today’s cheet sheat!
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How SimCity’s Will Wright wants to use your memories in the cloud to talk to aliens
Collect all of your memories and send them to space and back!
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QWOP creator declares: Jocks and gamers. Together at last.
Stalking the halls at the Game Developer’s Conference 2013 this week gave me plenty of data to test against Bennett Foddy’s sharp talk on videogames’ failure to learn from the lessons that sports mastered thousands of years ago. The expo floor is packed with games struggling to put themselves on di
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Forget Mass Effect. NASA wants to put you in space for real.
The NASA session at G.D.C., We Are The Space Invaders, came at the end of a long day. Everyone looked exhausted, the woman sitting next to me had her shoes off, and more than a few chairs were free. You could almost here a collective sigh as the two presenters, Victor Luo and Jeff Norris of the NASA
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Snake goes Rag & Bone in the making of Metal Gear 5
We already figured out from all the teasers and the gossip that Hideo Kojima and co. were doing Metal Gear Solid 5. That much was obvious. But what we were yet to learn is where Snake gets his ultra-fashionable, distressed leather jackets from. I can confirm it’s not from Rag & Bone. Yesterday, at
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Show us the bloody leg! Why Battlefield 4 isn’t yet counting the costs of war
“Technology has helped us become better story-tellers.” Thus sayeth Patrick Söderlund, executive VP of EA’s Games Label and one-half of dashing duo that graced the stage of Metreon last night. I was sitting towards the back of a movie theatre with a gaggle of other game journalists and apparently pr
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Far Cry 3 writer battles critics on Twitter, summons drug PSAs for defense
Far Cry 3, with its torture scenes and male-and-male rape and its leading millennial star named Jason Brody, is positioned as a work of cultural critique, a meta-commentary on the addictive gameplay systems and unsightly tropes found in popular shooter videogames. We’ve written about that before. Bu
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The dream of virtual foosball is alive and well…in Jordan
Stateside, a good game of foosball can be hard to come by. If you manage to find a table, it’ll probably be tucked in the corner of a dive bar, in a sad state of disuse, the miniature wooden ballers suspended at diagonal angles, the football lost. The only footzy action I’ve witnessed so far this ye