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Everyone at the CIA is playing a puzzle game named Kryptos
Games at work are good for national security
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Monument Valley’s expansion is just as lovely (and easy) as its predecessor
We talk to ustwo about evading the crow-people.
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Ace Hotel and The New York Times teach you how to solve crossword puzzles
Crossword puzzles are the perfect meditation for the modern logophile. Imagine a world where people could come together in a studio-like setting in order to solve crossword puzzles in complete harmony. Puzzles over poses. Coffee instead of yoga mats. Ace Hotel and the New York Times are hosting a wi
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Just in time for the holidays, a videogame that guilts you like your family
I swear to GOD Grandma, can you just listen to me for once in your life?? You Never Call is the family guilt trip we all need to revisit. Bring the family back together (even if it kills you) in You Never Call.
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Realize the compositional beauty of Rachmaninoff in Zero Age
I suppose you’ve heard that classical music apparently acts as a complementary aid to learning. It’s the type of reported notion that causes pregnant mothers to waddle around the house, a pair of headphones stretched around their baby-bloated bellies, all in order to blast Beethoven foetus-side thro
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Tri is like a first-person Monument Valley, and it’s out next week
If you thought Monument Valley was a little too not-first-person, have I got a game for you. The utterly batshit Tri takes that game’s perspective-exploding non-reality and lets you run through it, creating triangles (get it) to move from platform to dreamlike platform. If you want to see it in acti
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The secret to understanding The Swapper
What psychoanalysis has to do with the existential puzzler.
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Hunting for witches in Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
The crossover mines uneasy territory.
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The Salt Pleeease makes a meal out of table manners
Dinner tables are all etiquette and outstretched arms. Chaos waiting to happen.
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Here comes Miegakure to explain the 4th dimension
Miegakure is one of those magical games that seems to come out from the ether and pierce the veil of our mundane existences. That’s not an exaggeration: Miegakure looks that good. It’s even less of an exaggeration when you consider that one of the main appeals to the game is that you can actually pi
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BoxPop brings out the chessmaster mathematician in you
In chess, there’s something known as a “a knight’s tour.” It’s a sequence of moves around the board where the knight visits every square only once and the problem has been a challenge for mathematicians to solve it since Swiss physicist Leonhard Euler tackled it the 18th century. If you didn’t know,
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Within’s impossible spaces play with your anxiety
You’re a lab rat chasing the cheese around a maze devised to break your mind.