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Remembering the obscure PlayStation game that just wanted you to play
Where most games encourage play with open worlds, Boku no Natsuyasumi promotes it through careful structure.
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A conversation with John Clowder, whose collage-like games have to be seen to be believed
Find out Where They Cremate the Roadkill.
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Sub Rosa wants you to be the worst person you could possibly be
Cryptic Sea’s upcoming shooter is described by the developers as “about tense deals, double-crosses and car chases.” Car chases and gunplay have been done to death, but what’s this about double-crossing? Less of a shooter and more of a corporate warfare simulator, the game encourages you to be an al
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Shadow of Mordor shines, despite its Tolkien skin
Let the nemesis free.
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Shenmue and the rise of lonelycore games
An open world of closed-off people.
Los Santos
Space Travel (or, Falling Down)
How do we actually remember Los Santos?
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Watch Dogs is a miracle even if it sucks
Ubisoft unleashes something… big.
Review
Infamous: Second Son shows what the PS4 is capable of, and nothing more
Down and out in Nu-Seattle.
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As we speak, drones are scanning the entire Earth to put it in an RPG
In what might qualify as the most ambition creative project in the history of creative projects (aside from Caligula, of course), a small studio in Montreal is scanning the entire face of the Earth with civilian drones to use it as the location for their RPG ReRoll. This triggers some obvious red fl
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How CD Projekt Red is reinventing the open world in The Witcher 3
Is bigger necessarily better?
Minecraft
The World is Flat
One man’s journey to the end of Minecraft.
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Rough Riders
Australia looks different from the driver’s seat.