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Fake Gamer of the Week: Attack of the Electric Neon Tentacle Monster
“What, it’s just harmless anime! It’s not like helpless school girls are ever attacked by lascivious multi-tentacled creatures hell-bent on human exploration in real life.” That’s what he kept saying, and as it turns out he was completely 100 percent correct. In real life, the tentacle monsters attack men. I don’t know what to tell…
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Watch Paranoia Become The Death of An Entire Group In DayZ
In the video above, one DayZ player decides to infiltrate a wandering group when they mistake him for a member. Once someone’s suspicions starts to rise, though, everyone freaks out. And attacks each other. Anyone could be the infiltrator! Little do they know that the real infiltrator is hanging back, waiting to finish off the…
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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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These Are The Most Important 60 Seconds of Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 is a vast and interesting game. This YouTuber fragments it into 60 seconds to give you the best, most accurate and important impressions. And by that I of course mean silliest. Do you ever just randomly talk to the games you play? Poke fun at characters playfully? That’s essentially what BlackLightAttack does with…
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Ubisoft’s uPlay Has a Security Hole. Here’s How You Can Fix It. [Update]
Ubisoft has caught a lot of flak from PC gamers over their uPlay system, online-authentication DRM that most recently came to attention for being unavailable at exactly the wrong time. As it now turns out, uPlay is not only inconvenient to gamers, but it also comes with an insecure, exploitable browser plugin. Rock Paper Shotgun…
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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…
By Mike Fahey
