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A Gauntlet For Our Modern Era
I love playing Gauntlet, but sometimes you want something faster, leaner and more aggressive. Indie hopeful The Hero Trap hopes to fill that void. Nikita Mikros (One of the dudes behind the fantastic local multiplayer game Killer Queen) and Smashworx are trying to kickstart The Hero Trap, a multiplayer, dungeon roguelike in the vein of…
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Ruining Dark Souls II Is Funnier Than It Should Be
Dark Souls II has a lot of changes in it, and watching fans try to parse them out on Youtube is always a fascinating process. But what would happen if the game was so different it was utterly ruined? Hilarity, that’s what. I’ll admit — I’m currently halfway through my second play through of Dark…
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Watch A Cartoon Astronaut Wage Interstellar War
Glorkian Warrior: The Trials of Glork is more than a mouthful of a title, it’s a silly arcade shooter for iOS from the guys over at PixelJam (the guys behind Dinorun) and artist James Kochalka I got a hands-on with the game last month at Indiecade East with Mark DeNardo, the game’s sound wizard (I…
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Yes, Dark Souls II Looks Different Than It Did Last Year
If you’ve been playing Dark Souls II, and following the coverage leading up to the game’s release, you may have noticed that the version of Dark Souls II that was originally shown off to the public was not the same as the game we got on consoles. Tweaks to the lighting, overhauls in the structure…
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Dark Souls II Players Have Already Died 4.3 Million Times
Dying happens a lot in Dark Souls II. How often specifically? Millions of times since the game’s release yesterday. Some eagle-eyed players might have spotted the death obelisk in the town of Majula. Lucky for us, the folks behind the game have a website that you can check while at work or on the go.…
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Reviews
Dark Souls II: The Kotaku Review
Dark Souls II begins by telling you that you’re flat-out screwed. The game opens with a smiling, blind, gap-toothed crone, telling you that you’re cursed. If you stay where you are, your memories will fade and you will become a hollow — an empty undead beast that feeds off the souls of the living. Like…
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Quite Possibly the Most Depressing ‘Let’s Play’ You’ll Ever Watch
Often times the most interesting thing about watching someone narrate a game isn’t the game itself, it’s the person behind it. The short film Let’s Play Nomad X, uploaded last year but making the rounds now, is about what people can tell you about themselves when you read between the lines. It’s about the brief,…
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You Are Probably Not As Good At Driving Games As This Guy
I’ve always had a distant respect for players of the arcade racing series Initial D. This video catapults that respect to new heights. Watch as a player by the name of Josh demolishes a tough as nails stage in Initial D Arcade Stage 6 AA. It’s hypnotic to watch anybody perform at that level, then…
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Guys, What If We Made Jurassic Park… With Cats
Jurassic Park is a classic film, but guess what makes it better? Why cats, of course. The people at We Are Camera took the classic scene from Jurassic Park and composited some cats into it. The result is equal parts adorable and frightening. Between this, the Jeff Goldblum laugh remix and the Dennis Nedry operating…
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An Animated History of Dark Souls
One of the best things about Dark Souls is how it handles backstory — which is to say it buries it in the woods upstate and hopes you find it. That is why this (mostly) accurate explainer is so rewarding! That’s not to say it’s intelligible, though! Dark Souls: In Summary by PlagueOfGripes takes the…
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When Game Consoles Are More Important Than Friends
Admit it: as a kid you had at least one friend you hung out with simply because he had cool video games. It’s a time honored tradition! The Onion’s (obviously joke) coverage of 12-Year-Old Couldn’t Begin To Guess Name Of Friend Whose House He Visits To Play Xbox shows just how awful kids can be…
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A Game of Pac-Man That’s Also A Mesmerizing Symphony
It’s always lovely when the cultural iconography of gaming fuses with other forms of art to become something new, wonderful and different. Six Pacmen is one such work of art. Six Pacmen is an interactive performance piece by Tacit Group and an adaptation of a piano composition named Six Pianos by famed minimalist composer Steve…
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Tower of Guns Is A Game About A Tower…Made Of Guns
There’s something to be said about making an honest game, and Tower of Guns is the definition of that: Honest. It’s a game that makes no bones about what it is, and doesn’t get mired down trying to be anything it is not. In the video above, I play a bit of the indie roguelike…
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The First Rule of Final Fight Club is…
“…don’t eat hamburgers you find on the ground.” Wait, that’s not it. The people behind 8-Bit Cinema (16-bit this time) bring you their latest demake of a classic movie. It’s a video that begs the question: What do you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a 16-bit brawler? Previously we’ve seen their work…
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How Candy Crush Tricks The Brain
We all know Candy Crush Saga is addictive, but have you ever wondered why? Watch Anthony Carboni of Discovery News give an overview of the science behind addiction and talk about how free games like Candy Crush try to trick your brain. The main takeaway? If you’re going to play something addictive, at least pay…
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No, Staring At A Screen Won’t Ruin Your Eyes
“TV will ruin your eyes!” they warned us, “Stop staring at a screen!” Shows what those suckers know, because they’re wrong. Watch as Discovery News breaks down the history of an urban legend that just won’t die — that staring at TV will ruin your eyes. Sure, eye strain is real and you should still…
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If Star Fox Took Place On Earth, We’d Be Screwed
Count your lucky stars that Star Fox takes place in the Lylat system and not here, because if it did we’d all be screwed. In the video above, YouTube user Warialasky takes a look at the horrible, collateral damage that a Star Fox dogfight would cause on a major metropolitan city. Sure nobody dies, but…
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Watch ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ Get Their Final Gym Badge
The Twitch Plays Pokémon saga continues in victory! In a grueling 20 minute fight this morning, Twitch Plays Pokémon managed to defeat the final gym leader and Team Rocket boss Giovanni one last time. This is the final gym leader that Twitch has to defeat before moving on to The Elite Four. Truly, Lord Helix…
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If Dark Souls II Were An 80s Cartoon
1980s nostalgia is easy to exploit for cheap jokes and lazy humor. But an 80s cartoon version of Dark Souls II? I’d buy that for a dollar. Dark Souls II: Rogue Warrior by YouTube user veselekov envisions a scratchy, VHS vision of what Dark Souls II could have been if it had landed in the…
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If Hollywood Turned Checkers Into A Gritty Film…
If you’re like me, then you love it when board games get the big screen, hollywood treatment. Jumanji, Battleship — They’re almost all unimpeachably amazing. Now finally, Checkers gets its chance to shine. Or not. Checkers: The Movie is not coming to the big screen. The folks at Board With Life made as part of…
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