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Pong and Minecraft Join 14 Classic Games in The Museum of Modern Art

The next time you go to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art to take in, say, a retrospective of Le Corbusier, you’ll be able to get up close and personal with one of the earliest home consoles ever made. And there’ll be Atari classics and a modern indie juggernaut waiting for you, too. MoMA…

Prison Architect continues to have the best alpha updates: “Alpha 11 brings a host of new features, bug fixes and improvements, not least of which is hearses to take away the unfortunately deceased.” Details here. Reasons to play it here. (Warning: Presumably-NSFW cursing at the start of the video.)

Anodyne, the excellent Zelda-like indie that came out on PC earlier this year, is now on iOS

This Indie 8-Bit Platformer Harkens Back To The Castlevanias of Old

Meet Odallus: The Dark Call, currently in development by JoyMasher, the same Brazilian indie group that brought us Oniken last year. It’s an “action exploration platformer” set to come out in 2014. Also, the hero is named “Haggis.” … Huh. Much like the first Castlevania, Odallus will be comprised of separate stages. These stages are…

Demos Are Great For Gamers, Not-So-Great For Game Sales

Giving players a chance to try before they buy is a noble gesture, but it may not be a wise. According to research presented by game designer Jesse Schell at the Gamelab conference in Barcelona today, a demo can cut into a game’s sales by more than 50 percent, CVG reports. The data, gathered by…

Are MOBA Games Too Fast? Go Turn-Based With Arena Of Heroes

The multiplayer online battle arena genre started off as a fast-paced variant of real-time strategy games. This week Sneaky Games dials back the action and ramps up the strategy with Arena of Heroes, a turn-based cross-platform MOBA jam for iPad, PC and Mac. What a difference taking turns makes. It’s MOBA meets chess. Players take…

Civilization V: Brave New World Gets An Excellent Early Launch Trailer

It’s even narrated by Captain Anderson Keith David. Anything that man touches is gold. The newest expansion to Firaxis Games’ turn-based strategy title, Civilization V: Brave New World, will feature nine new civilizations, eight wonders, and introduces several new mechanics to the main game, such as trade routes and the World Congress. Expect it to…

The Best Games of 2013’s Amazing First Six Months

The year could end right now and we could already declare 2013 one of gaming’s greatest years. Have we ever had a first half as stacked as this? Let’s celebrate by having some friendly debates about which games were the best. First, to remind you of how good it’s been, lets marvel at this horn…

The daily Smash Bros. screenshots on Nintendo’s site can easily compete with anything the internet at large has to offer. Take, for example, the one uploaded today. We’ll probably never know what’s going on in the pic between Mario and the Wii Trainer. They are not fighting, that’s for sure.

Contrast Gives Us 5 Screenshots Before Stepping Back Into The Shadows

Indie platformer Contrast sure is coming along nicely. We first caught glimpse of the game earlier this year, when we got a taste of the unique shadow-platforming mechanics behind the game. Now, with these screenshots, we get to see the moody, film-noir inspired world in greater detail. Have a look below. Contrast is expected to…

20 Great Artists Want To Make An Album Celebrating Video Game Music

“Game audio is still something that’s not really recognised for what it is,” muses Rik Ede, composer for Wipeout HD and organizer of a Kickstarter to fund a brand new album created by some of the biggest names in video game music. The people involved in the project represent a wide variety of genres, be…

All The Serious Sam Games, In One Convenient Package, On The Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 will be getting an on-disc compilation of every game in the Serious Sam series of first-person shooters. Well, almost every game. The aptly titled Serious Sam Collection contains the HD versions of First Encounter and Second Encounter, Serious Sam 3 BFE along with the Jewel of the Nile DLC, and Serious Sam…

The Red Dead Movie Is Out, And It Sure Is Something

First teased earlier in the month, a 14-minute Red Dead Redemption movie is now ready for viewing. And it’s…yeah. Put together by fans, it puts the map icon on “70s schlock tribute” and doesn’t stop riding towards it the whole damn time. Red Dead Redemption Fan Film [YouTube]

Well, This Indie Combat Game Continues To Blow My Socks Off

Strike Vector is a game that’scome out of nowhere. Worked on by four people, it’s a multiplayer aerial combat game that looks like a whole bunch of people’s dream game ideas from the 90s made real. Screw the combat (OK, not really, because it looks fun), but the game could just be about flying through…

Ten Years Later, A Terrible Game Is Not So Terrible Anymore

In a rush to cash in on the popularity of the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, publishers Bethesda and developers Akella released in 2003 a very strange game. It wasn’t really a Pirates of the Caribbean game. It had been in development as a sequel to Sea Dogs, a 2000 game that itself was…

Forget Call Of Duty, I’m Hanging Out For This Hardcore PC Shooter

Bohemia Interactive’s ArmA III is out later this year, and while for many the series’ super hardcore simulation slant is off-putting, for me it’s just about the perfect implementation of a military shooter. Or tank sim. Or jet combat game. Or truck driving simulator. While the finished game isn’t out for another few months, an…

You Can Now Buy The Internet. The Whole Damn Thing.

If you’ve never seen The IT Crowd, I feel bad for you, son. I also suggest you watch this Up to speed? OK, awesome. Aussie artist Mike Jenkins has started building his own replicas of The Internet, complete with blinking red light, and is selling them for roughly $30. $30, for the entire internet. Bargain!…

Someone Finally Built Homer Simpson’s Hideous Green Car

One of the greatest Simpsons episodes all time was Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, famous at the time for Danny DeVito’s cameo as Homer’s brother Herb, but more famous now for the legacy of the car that stole the show. Asked by his brother to design a new car, Homer comes up with…The Homer, a…

Mass Effect Cosplay, Done Right

Anatomic Latex is a store that specialises in, well, latex cosplay gear. For those sci-fi and comic book characters whose outfits can’t be matched with cloth and fabric. You’d think that would be an in for a cheap and pervy cash-in, something more “fetish” than “cosplay”, but surprisingly, these guys take their craft real serious,…

Dragonborn Street Musician Plays AC/DC On Flaming Bagpipes

The headline says it all, people. I mean, he’s not really Dragonborn. (Though kudos to commenter Andres Cordova for pointing out how obviously Dovahkiin this dude is.) But you’d never know it from watching this kilted, tattooed ass-kicker play AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” in Fremantle back in May. It’s almost enough to make me want to learn…