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Do you ever notice how a few websites review big games early, and how those early reviews tend to be positive? Well, it turns out that there’s a demonstrable psychological effect at play when this happens: A pair of studies suggests that we remain impressed after reading early positive reviews, even
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Badland won Best Project at last month’s Game Connection Europe, and the trailer makes it easy to see why: the game marries the one-button simplicity of Tiny Wings with the mechanical platforming menace of Limbo, under an aesthetic so polished it fairly glistens. The game is the baby of Frogmind stu
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A new iOS game was created with the purpose of both educating and raising money for HIV prevention. The game is called THRED and is born from a partnership between Coca-Cola and RED, the latter being a company which tries to reduce the prevalence of HIV in the style of the “pink” movement to fight b
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At 9:45 PM last night, Eastern Standard Time, the game developer Robin Hunicke – she of Journey fame – tweeted a picture of herself with the query: what does a game designer look like? You know the rest: a hashtag was born and a flood of game designers started snapping selfshots! So, what DO game de
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Every neighborhood has one. That one park or school or restaurant that had the playground you never could turn away from. My brother’s school had one — the twisting, wooden spires of his montessori, and the sheer size! It was enormous, with byzantine pathways, ample room to hide, and several walk wa
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-Long Vo, creative director of Hiptic, which is producing the forthcoming beat-em-up ShaqDown. The game is the Big Aristotle’s triumphant return to gaming, two decades after the legendary Shaq Fu.
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The War Z, the not-so-massively multiplayer zombie game that has been pelted by accusations of false advertising and near-plagiarism of DayZ is no longer purchasable on Steam (though the game description page is still up). Earlier today, users became outraged after the apparent censorship of posts c
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We’ve become a culture obsessed with getting entertainment early. VOD plays movies before they hit the theater; Chris Nolan leaks the best scenes in the Batman movies as trailers; I’ve listened to half the tracks on most albums I’m looking forward to by the time they hit Spotify. Gamers are at the v
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Shadow Love is not going make any end-of-year lists, it’s not going to inspire 50,000 words about issues, and it’s not going to stake a claim for Japanese indies. But this platform game, with its incredible shadow-puppet universe (in which every other thing is some sort of weird hand contortion) mig
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The Titan, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, is the world’s most powerful supercomputer. It does 17.59 thousand-trillion calculations (petaflops) per second. The 4,300-square-foot monster achieves this insane number of parallel by pairing powerful CPUs with GPUs (graphical processin
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There are those moments in games that burn themselves into your memory. How could you forget the beauty and horror of the “Waltz of the Flowers” moment in Bioshock. The battle with Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid and its absurd destruction of the fourth wall always makes me laugh: “You like Castel
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Remember that scene in the first episode of this season’s Breaking Bad? The one where Walter and Jesse use the enormous magnet to destroy an evidence room? Yeah, well, videogame crooks are stepping their game up – these aren’t the usual counterfeiters or torrentors, but the real daring deal: The thi