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At first glance, Exanima looks like virtually any other Diablo clone on the market. The dimly-lit dungeons and isometric perspective do little to combat that perception. You’ll spend...
Pony Island has utter contempt for games that use mechanical bells and whistles to extort something from their players. It is a seething letter to the CEOs, profiteers, and grubby busine...
The Boston-based game developer has made a small name for himself in the indie game world for making political and sociological satires that have the subtlety of a hammer to the head. His first was
Outreach is a zero-gravity game, described by the design team as a “first-person floater.” And I have just floated off into the vacuum of space for a third consecutive time.
“I’m in art college,” explains Leighton Gray, art director and co-creator of Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator. “We were talking about furry culture and Fursonas and all the different perso...
It takes a very particular type of player to appreciate Life Is Feudal. That might seem like a bit of a get-out clause, but it’s absolutely true and for that particular subset of gamers it will be one...
I’m holding IM conversations with two women at the same time, and I’m telling them different things, building different versions of myself. I know I’m going to be scored on how much I match their tast...
We’ve never reached a broad consensus on Destiny. While many games are declared masterpieces, or remembered collectively as ‘beloved 7/10s’, as tremendous failures, or failed experiments,
Is this a fairly standard thing for an MMO to do, to bring a psychology expert in to talk to them?
The draw of B-movies, such as the ones shown on Mystery Science Theater: 3000, isn’t the fact that the movies shown are asinine. That would be too simple. The fun part is the idea that somebo...
Sony just concluded its Playstation E3 press briefing in Los Angeles. While we didn’t see a lot of new titles, the presentation went heavy on virtual reality offerings and console exclusives.
I went into the new Ghostbusters with some degree of trepidation.
Werner Herzog is a prolific filmmaker, known chiefly for his narrated feature-length documentaries including Encounters at the End of the World, Grizzly Man, and Cave of Forgotte...
Resident cyborg ninja Steven Strom makes the case for Warframe in a new video essay. Check it out up top!
You know that Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay video you were looking for? It’s finally here and it looks awfully, awfully good.
First announced way back in 2012, today’s Microsoft press briefing offered us our first longform glimpse at this long-awaited sci-fi RPG from the makers of The Witcher, Cyberpunk 2077.
U.S. Congressional Representative Duncan Hunter gained short-lived internet fame when he was filmed vaping on the House floor in February 2016. He gained notability again in April 2016&n...
If there’s one thing BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, is good at, it’s pulling at the heartstrings. With Mass Effect: Andromeda on the immediate horizo...
