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I am 33.23 seconds into Hexagonest. It’s far and away my best performace in Super Hexagon. I’m spinning in circles and line are flying at me from every direction. I’m tapping furiously and nothing seems like it can contain me. I am playing like an absolute hero. I wish somebody was watching because
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Here’s a fascinating read this morning in Gamasutra: business advice for Western publishers looking to break into the booming Middle Eastern gaming market. In particular, games that emphasize social meeting space have been doing extremely well in the region, with its extremely young population and
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Good news! Sportsfriends, the collection of excellent, offbeat local mulitplayer sports titles – from headliner JS Joust to Bennett Foddy’s awesome and cheekily-named Super Pole Riders, has hit its $150,000 Kickstarter funding target. We told you about the collection last month, in a conversation wi
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Dark Souls 2 has been announced. I thought I would have been giddy with excitement, but I’m not. I love Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls. They are some of the best games ever made, but playing one is an ordeal. I would hyperbolically equate it to climbing Mount Everest: worth it in every respect and a p
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There were much better games for the PlayStation than Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, but perhaps none I remember more vividly or more fondly. From the opening cinematic on, this game owned my life. Oh, yes, that cinematic, to my mind the best one of the 32-bit era, by a wide margin: Dear lord. Ok, so,
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It’s called Teleglitch and it looks like this: The plot sounds like the best movie never made: See the future where humanity is controlled by cold, dark mega-corporations. One of them is Miliary Technology Incorporated (aka Militech), one of the world’s largest military research organizations, speci
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A lot has been said about games ability to grab our attention. For some they can be a little too effective in this regard (ahem). But if you have a disability, or learning issues, it may be the only medium that you can really plug into, as it were. A step-father made a videogame with some educationa
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It’s almost as hard to get Rockstar head honcho Sam Houser to talk at length as it is to get a picture of him – only a handful are floating around the internet. That’s why Edge’s quasi-oral history of GTA: Vice City with Houser is such a coup. This thing is full of gems, but my favorite is the story
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Everyone thinks gamers are lazy, but we’re the only people on the couch moving: our fingers, and what with this newfangled motion sensing technology sometimes even our arms and entire bodies. Sony aims to fix that. They’ve filed a patent for eye tracking contact lenses using magnets and mirrors and
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Thirteen years ago [ed: !!!], the beloved and tragically short-lived NBC dramedy, Freaks and Geeks, had its magical run. Thanks to its availability on Netflix instant and a truly terrific Vanity Fair oral history, the show is having a real moment right now, and justifiably so. Gallery 1988 in LA is
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-Industry analyst Michael Pachter on Activision’s failure to properly monetize their cash cow.
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2012 is almost over and while the “best of” videogame lists are soon to come a reflection on the general trends of the medium are in order. Michael Abbot: The games of 2012 suggest that designers are discovering and exploiting more channels of communication with players. In the past, these efforts h