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Induction is like a gorgeous, time-warping trip through Monument Valley
This mind-bending pastel world defies language.
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Word puzzle game Alphabear looks adorable but it has a filthy mouth
Alphabear is a fun little mobile game. Combining word search puzzles with Neko Atsume’s pet collection mechanic, it draws you in with such adorable characters as Pirate Bear and Golfing Bear, who each possess their own set of unique bear powers—along with a themed outfit, of course. Designed by Bren
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Forget Jurassic World, here’s a game with a badass red-headed dino hunter
As we’ve seen in Jurassic Park, and now Jurassic World, the unstoppable force of a hungry dino can only be thwarted by one thing: cool, overly confident badassary. Whether its Sam Neill battling a car and a raptor at the same time, or Chris Pratt’s motorcycle sequence, the more outlandish your survi
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Be intimidated by this lo-fi computer-programming game, or discover its secrets
Several lines of command-line text fade into the left side of your monitor. The sounds of primitive processor clicking and ancient operating system chimes remind you of the birth of the PC. The opposite of the clean and intuitive UI designs that we’ve all grown accustomed to jumps out at you, in an
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Bloxels charts a course between physical and virtual game-making
The act of prototyping a game is a game in its own right. It involves the conceptualizing of space and the solving of puzzles. So why not just turn prototyping into a game? the best of both worlds Bloxels, which is currently halfway to its fundraising goal on Kickstarter, takes this thought to its
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Give evolution the middle finger with Snakebird
It slithers and squawks.
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Broken Age and the adventure of growing up
There is a subversive message behind Double Fine’s gorgeous parable.
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After two long years, the enigmatic spaces of Relativity are locking into place
For Willy Chyr, everything is locking into place all at once. There’s probably a click echoing through the cosmos in his name right now. Don’t listen for it, but know that if it exists, it’s satisfying in the way cracking your joints is, or crunching into that first thick-cut potato chip. For the pa
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Kirby creators try a new shape in BoxBoy
Along the way, they evoke Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times.
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AUX B makes a puzzle out of our electric wire-infested lives
Behind my television is a snake nest of electronic cables. I put it there. These coiling black and gray wires feeding the sockets in my wall, powering the appliances deemed necessary in my life; an unkempt pile of synergized technology. Likewise, the innards of my PC that I precariously clasped and
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Bloodborne’s Chalice Dungeons hide the game’s greatest challenges and weirdest joke
Behold: the Bloodborne engagement ring.
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The ghostly, luminescent worlds of A Light in Chorus can’t arrive soon enough
Undeniably beautiful, tantalizingly mysterious.