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Gamers my age (23) grew up with the Metal Gear series. It means different things to different people, but no matter what it meant, it marked time for a generation of gamers. This story recounts a life through each iteration of Metal Gear, beginning with Metal Gear Solid: Metal Gear Solid is a videog
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Good Old Games (GOG) decided to make digital downloads analog. Take a look at “the GOGBook,” which is “literally as fast as light.” Okay, so this was a joke to promote the fact that GOG is selling games for the Mac now, but it was a good one.
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This quiz game gives you the name of a cheese or a font and asks you to discern which one it is. It’s a fun way to realize that the two are weirdly similar. If you do well, you’re probably some kind of cheese or font snob, or both. It’s okay, we still like you.
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Gamers are still in the honeymoon phase with Kickstarter. What happens when games never make it to launch? Kyle Orland at Ars Technica discusses Haunt‘s recent failure and what this says about the Kickstarter phenomenon: Over 1,200 backers helped Rick Dakan and the development team at Mob Rule Games
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Have you ever wanted to make your own adventure game? Failbetter Games has created a tool called Story Nexus which allows you to craft your own text based adventure. And even if you don’t want to create a game, you can play other people’s. The adventure creation package requires no coding but allow
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Howard Phillips, of Howard & Nestor fame, has started a Kickstarter for an educational game that distracts you from learning. Basically, image and audio are paired in tiles that players have to match up for score combos. The distraction of figuring out how to get a high score makes it seem like you’
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Why? Why not. This is how it was done: Instructables user dany32412 pulled an Xzibit, he built a Nintendo NES system into an old school NES Cartridge. Inspired by Kotomi who completed a similar project, he sourced a NES On A Chip (NOAC), a cloned consol which is essentially a fully functional Ninte
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It’s time to break out your DS flash cart or emulator and play the homebrew ghost story Pokémon (Creepy) Black. You could read most of it here, but I found it far more creepy using the DS game retelling. In true ghost story tradition, the game’s gradual unfolding is part of what makes it creepy, so
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Pippin Barr, the man behind Pongs and this article about sadist Pong, has made a game about playing the game Johann Sebastian Joust called Ludwig Von Beatdown. If you can’t make it to one of those artsy conventions, you can play at home! …kind of.
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Extra Life is a nonprofit that holds an annual 24 hour gaming marathon for charity. With the help of Twitch, a gaming entertainment service, they have set a fundraising record. The Twitch community has managed to raise more than $1.5 million for the Extra Life 2012 charity, which is set to see thous
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It’s fall. That means you’ve nestled up on your sofa, arranged the magazines on your coffee table in a visually-acceptable arrangement, and will now spend the next dozen consecutive weekends glued to your television. You will be watching sports, playing video games, or hopefully doing things that in
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The game Apotheon is still in development by Alientrap for release next year, and judging from their play trailer I think I would play it for the gorgeous ancient Greek art style alone.