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Now That Dear Esther is Done, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Indie developer thechineseroom’s experimental first-person adventure Dear Esther was a runaway success, despite the fact that wonderfully moody and atmospheric experience wasn’t exactly what one might consider a game. Now that they’ve set the mood, it’s time to add in a bit more game with Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, the story of the end…
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E3 is Staying in Los Angeles Through 2015, Dammit
After filling the heads of game journalists everywhere with dreams of an Electronic Entertainment Expo taking place somewhere else for a change, the Entertainment Software Association crushes our hopes and dreams for three more years. Having teased E3-centric news on Friday, I spent the better part of the weekend dreaming up where next year’s E3…
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Terraria Meets Borderlands in FortressCraft2d
ProjectorGames, creators of one of the best-selling Xbox Live Indie MineCraft clone FortressCraft, are going in a different direction with FortressCraft2D: sideways. A far cry from the 3D building game that sold like gangbusters in the XBLIG channel, FortressCraft2d is a 2D zombie survival game that leans heavily on procedural generation of worlds and weapons…
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Here’s What the Live-Action Hawken Series Looks Like. I’d Rather Be Playing the Game.
Directed by Gears of War art director Jeremiah O’Flaherty and starring the guy that played Darwin in X-Men First Class, this teaser trailer for the 2013 web series based on indie mech game Hawken is nearly as impressive as the actual game. Since getting my hands on Hawken at E3 last month, my only Hawken-related…
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This Might Be the Most Well-Rounded Week in Gaming Apps Ever
Two iOS games, one iOS / Android combo, an Android exclusive and a special Windows Phone 7 version of a game that’s now out on all three. How’s that for diversity? Shut up, Blackberry. As part of my never-ending quest to cover all segments of mobile gaming, I’ve gone so far as to take it…
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Fall of Cybertron Abuses a Great Moment in Transformers History to Push Retailer-Exclusive Preorder DLC
This is not a moment you screw with, Activision. This is scripture. This is the ultimate chapter in the Book of Optimus. This is not — I cannot stress this enough — not an advertisement for GameStop exclusive preorder downloadable content. Now I’ve talked to folks at Activision and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron developer High…
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This Kitten-Powered Kickstarter Might Fail, But the Video Has Already Won
21st Street Games wants to take it’s Techno Kitten Adventure to the next level, so 20 days ago the Kickstarter page for Super Tecnho Kitten Adventure was launched. It’s not going particularly well, but damn if the project video isn’t amazingly bizarre. I’m not endorsing Super Techno Kitten Adventure. I’ve played the iPhone version of…
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Meet the Real-World Counterpart to StarCraft‘s Explosive Zergling
StarCraft‘s Baneling is a sub-species of Zergling that, upon approaching an enemy unit, triggers a violent chemical reaction that causes the sacs on its body to explode, spewing acid. Science fiction meets science fact in Neocapritermes taracua, a species of termite that uses similar sacs to suicide bomb enemies of the colony. Native to the…
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Dead or Alive 5‘s ‘Sexy Costume’ Trailer Needs More Sexy Costume
I don’t get it, Tecmo Koei. This is supposed to be the “Sexy Costume” trailer, but it only shows Zack for all of 10 seconds, padding the rest with female characters dressed like some sort of rabbits. What gives? I suppose “sexy” is a completely subjective term. Years of conditioning and stimuli go into determining…
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Tera‘s Next Exciting Update Reminds Me I Should Probably Log Into Tera or Something
The Argon Queen update for En Masse Entertainment’s action-packed massively multiplayer online role-playing game Tera drops next month in North America, bringing with it player-versus-player battlegrounds, a 10-man raid, new skills and a nagging reminder that I should probably log into the game sometime this month. It’s not you, Tera; it’s me. I still love…
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Planet Crashers Takes on Mario and Wario in This Week’s Nintendo Download
Which would you rather have, a grungy old black-and-white Wario game, a dollar off a classic Mario game, or a colorful action role-playing game from the creators of Dementium: The Ward? I have no definite answer. I just like asking long form questions. I will say, at least, that were I completely unfamiliar with all…
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Want More Plants Vs. Zombies? This Technically Counts
PvZ Presents: Talking Zombatar, coming to smart phones and tablets later this year from PopCap Games, is decidedly NOT Plants Vs. Zombies 2. You will be able to buy new outfits for your pet dead thing, so I guess that’s something. *weeps*
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With a Mario Marriage Proposal This Super, How Could He Say No?
“Will you be my player two?” More beautiful words between two gamers have never been spoken. Offbeat Bride tribesmaid Kaharaminttu raised the phrase to new levels of sweetness with this creative coin box proposal to her husband-to-be. When Kaharaminttu’s “mancreature” told her that he felt it was silly that society always expected the man to…
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Angry Birds Space Scores a New Boss, a New Bird, and a Little Tetris Flavor
The biggest update yet to Rovio’s award-winning fowl-flinging space physics game sees the return of an inflatable hero, the appearance of the big (the operative term) boss of the sugary planet of Utopia, and a secret level loosely based on the most beloved puzzle game of all time. There are 20 new levels to conquer…
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This is the Pure Essence of Real-Time Strategy
Since its inception, the real-time strategy genre has gotten progressively more complex with each passing year, piling weather effects, terrain conditions, tech trees, multi-tiered objectives and more on top of a relatively simple core concept. Auralux is that core concept. Recently released for Android devices (it’s been out for the PC, grab a free demo…
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The Four Core Concepts That Guild Wars 2 is Built Upon
Yesterday’s Q&A with Guild Wars 2 content designer Mike Zadorojny painted the development of next month’s blockbuster MMO in broad strokes. Today ArenaNet releases a series of videos that break the game’s design down to four core components: dynamic events, player versus player, personal story and combat. A massively multiplayer online role-playing game is much…
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Bubble Witch Saga Pops In On the Future of Cross-Platform Social Gaming
Today players of King.com’s popular Bubble Witch Saga can continue their Facebook-based quest on the iPhone and iPad. To some a free-to-play puzzle game that seamlessly synchronizes between Facebook and smartphone might not sound like that big of a deal. To others it’s another step on the path towards a future of platform-free gaming. Nearly…
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The Never-Ending Battle of PlanetSide 2 Becomes Three Minutes of Stunning CGI
Premiering live today at the 2012 China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference, PlanetSide 2‘s ‘Death is No Excuse’ CGI trailer takes the spirit of Sony Online Entertainment’s upcoming massively multiplayer online first-person shooter and dresses it up in a fancy coat of blood-splattered CGI. If only the game were so pretty. That’s not saying PlanetSide…
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