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The Most Fun You’ll Have Stabbing Your Friend In The Face
There aren’t enough games that involve bloody sword-duels to the death. There are fewer still that suck me in entirely. Nidhogg, out today on Steam, is one of those rare games. In the video above, my video compatriot Steve Marinconz and I play a round of the addictive-as-hell indie game Nidhogg. We laughed, we cried,…
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Ten Games To Play Instead Of Candy Crush Saga
2013 was the year of Candy Crush Saga. It was on television, in music videos, and — most importantly — it was in the hearts and minds of millions of mobile gamers around the globe. Let’s see if one of these ten alternatives can’t dislodge it. I probably played Candy Crush Saga more than any…
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Four Totally Reasonable Video Game Predictions For 2014
2014 is still young and the bets are still on, so what will it be for video games in this new year? Comic-creating duo Cara Ellison and Elizabeth Simins think they have some really sound ideas. Follow Ellison’s writing on her blog. She’s on Twitter, too,@carachan1. You can find more of Simins’ art, much of…
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Reminder: Don’t Just Correct People, Connect With People
It’s easy to correct someone. Especially if the topic at hand is something you’re knowledgeable and passionate about, it’s almost instinctive. A snap reaction. But it can be just as easy to let glaring errors slide and focus on the positive: that maybe this person committing the ultimate gamer faux pas is actually showing a…
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Call of Duty‘s DLC Will Turn You Into Michael Myers from Halloween
That quick tease Activision gave this morning of Call of Duty‘s new maps “doesn’t look anything like Call of Duty,” I said. Well, there’s a reason you’re lugging around a fire axe. One map, “Fog” will turn you into Michael Myers, the killer from Halloween. Completing a field order in fog turns you into the…
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A New Game Mode Is A Great Excuse To Watch More Garden Warfare Footage
The Gardens & Graveyards mode in the upcoming Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is an objective-based multiplayer mode in which the Zombies must capture Plants bases so we can watch five more minutes of gameplay footage from one of my most anticipated Xbox One games. Gameplay on my Xbox One looks bleak now, but the…
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Mew-Genics Demonstrates How New Kittens Are Made, More Or Less
The first footage (of sorts) from Team Meat’s upcoming cat breeding sim explores the miracle of kitten birth with 100 percent scientific accuracy, give or take a couple dozen percent. See, when two cats love one another or just feel like having sex, they have sex. Then the mother cat swells up, and new kittens…
By Mike Fahey
