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UncategorizedThe Most Ridiculous Victim of YouTube’s Crackdown is a BASIC Game
YouTube’s content ID match system may be the best way to keep copyright holders happy but it continues to cover everyone else in embarrassment. The latest example: This guy just got flagged for a playthrough video of a game. A game he programmed. In BASIC. This is “the action surfing adventure” Surfshooter, according to its…
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iTunes’ Top Selling, Top Grossing, And Simply Top Games Of 2013
Every December the editors of Apple’s iTunes face the monumental task of selecting two games out of the thousands released during the year to receive top honors as the Best of 2013. This year they chose ridiculously well. I cannot link you to iTune’s Best of 2013 feature — you’ll have to go into iTunes…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
The Sequel To 2012’s Amazing Walking Dead Game Is Here. It’s Depressing.
The Walking Dead Season Two—Telltale’s follow-up to their fantastic episodic adventure series—kicks off today with its first episode and it’s even more depressing with Clementine as its lead character Don’t worry, there are no spoilers in this kind-of-review. In season two of Telltale’s depressing The Walking Dead episodic series, an older Clementine is without her…
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UncategorizedGarden Warfare Looks Like Battlefield with a Plants vs. Zombies Mod
Here’s a look at about 6 minutes of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare‘s “Gardens & Graveyards” multiplayer, which PopCap calls “a remix of Rush and Conquest gameplay modes from Battlefield but with a PvZ spin.” The similarities end there, because I’m not sure Rush or Conquest features carnivorous plants that can tunnel underneath you to…
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UncategorizedStephen Colbert Spies on the Spies Playing Second Life
Last week, Jon Stewart tackled the absurdity of the NSA spying on World of Warcraft because there might be terrorists playing it or something. This week, The Colbert Report chimed in with a look at spying on Second Life—”a game for people who don’t have a first one!” The action picks up around the 1:10…
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Uncategorized9 Minutes of Dying Light to Get Your Heart Racing
Even though I’ve already played through this level of Dying Light at PAX Prime, I’m still shifting in my chair, on edge while watching and waiting to see if the protagonist lives or dies in these 9 minutes of footage. I mean, of course he’s going to live. But as skilled as whoever’s behind the…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Bobsplosion starts up a thread to round up the best pick-me-up anime, Dexomega shares an essay on the cultural diffusion between the U.S. and Japan, and Greg the Mad reviews the newest Hobbit movie Don’t forget that you can always go join the voices talking…
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UncategorizedMinimalist Post-Apocalyptic America Sure Looks Pretty
Don’t let the nice, sharp colors and shiny polygons distract you, though. It’s hard to survive in post-apocalyptic America. Indie group Ice Water Games is currently working on a little project called Eidolon, which takes you on a journey across a post-human Western Washington filled with rolling, green hills, massive forests, and burnt-out husks of…
By András Neltz - Uncategorized
This spectacularly beautiful digital painting of a Kerbal sight-seeing happened after redditor Calebm12 accidentally came across their old graphics tablet—one afternoon later, the painting was born. If you want to use this as your wallpaper (I don’t blame you), you can find a bunch of different sizes here Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…
By András Neltz
