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  • Laura Hudson
    12:46 pm Wed, Oct 28, 2015
    Explore a mysterious hard drive and reconstruct a broken world

    There's something a little mysterious about the programs you can find in strange corners of the internet, and doubly so if you happen to find them in the bowels of… Read the rest of the article: Explore a mysterious hard drive and reconstruct a broken world

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  • Laura Hudson
    1:22 pm Mon, Oct 26, 2015
    This cyberpunk murder mystery looks lovely, but feels incomplete

    I was ready to love Murder from the moment the game opened on a female police lieutenant waking from a rain-soaked cyberpunk nightmare about murderous robots, and walking out on… Read the rest of the article: This cyberpunk murder mystery looks lovely, but feels incomplete

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:43 am Wed, Oct 21, 2015
    An adventure game you play without ever leaving Twitter

    If you like adventure games and have a few minutes to spare, the latest creation of Leon Chang should be your next distraction—and you don't even have to leave Twitter… Read the rest of the article: An adventure game you play without ever leaving Twitter

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  • Laura Hudson
    2:04 pm Tue, Oct 20, 2015
    Take control of a giant fungus by carefully destroying it

    As concepts for games go, this is a new one: propelling a regenerating fungus through a long series of puzzles by surgically destroying it and forcing it to regrow. And… Read the rest of the article: Take control of a giant fungus by carefully destroying it

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  • Laura Hudson
    2:05 pm Mon, Oct 19, 2015
    Human Resource Machine will teach you to program and it will be adorable

    It's easy to feel like an automaton in the world of modern office labor. The game Human Resource Machine takes that one step further, by imagining an office building that… Read the rest of the article: Human Resource Machine will teach you to program and it will be adorable

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  • Laura Hudson
    8:32 am Fri, Oct 16, 2015
    Aurion imagines a new history for Africa, free of its imperial past

    Investors may have balked, the internet at large has proved more open-minded about opening the wallet.

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:43 pm Tue, Oct 13, 2015
    Take an interactive look inside an anxious brain with Neurotic Neurons

    What our brains learn, they can also unlearn—including what makes us anxious. That's the idea behind Neurotic Neurons, an interactive work by Nicky Case that explores the neuroscience of anxiety,… Read the rest of the article: Take an interactive look inside an anxious brain with Neurotic Neurons

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:58 pm Mon, Oct 12, 2015
    Calendula is a horror game that will stop you from playing it

    The moment I tried to start the demo for the upcoming horror game Calendula, it broke. "FATAL ERROR," read the pop-up message when I tried to start a new game.… Read the rest of the article: Calendula is a horror game that will stop you from playing it

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:10 pm Thu, Oct 8, 2015
    PAUSE, a relaxation app from the studio that created Monument Valley

    The impossible architecture puzzle game Monument Valley is pretty soothing—it's inspired hours of ASMR videos, if that's your jam—but the newest iOS release from Monument Valley developer Ustwo takes things… Read the rest of the article: PAUSE, a relaxation app from the studio that created Monument Valley

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  • Laura Hudson
    8:57 am Wed, Oct 7, 2015
    I can't believe how much I like this visual novel about playing Starcraft 2

    You don't have to care about a sport to care about the people who play it.

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  • Laura Hudson
    11:04 am Mon, Oct 5, 2015
    This 'guide to ambiguous grammar' is unexpectedly disturbing

    Grammar: It's boring to talk about, unless you're that type of person. Which personally I am, though I recognize that the eyes of most normal humans glaze over like donuts… Read the rest of the article: This 'guide to ambiguous grammar' is unexpectedly disturbing

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:27 am Mon, Oct 5, 2015
    You have 99 seconds to make art

    Quick, make something creatively fulfilling before time runs out!

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:49 am Sat, Oct 3, 2015
    Disney princesses reimagined as hot dogs

    We've seen Disney princesses reinterpreted as men, as minions, and even as velociprators, but this—this is something different altogether. [Lucky Peach]

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  • Laura Hudson
    5:14 am Fri, Oct 2, 2015
    The Beginner's Guide is a game that doesn't want to be written about

    The co-creator of The Stanley Parable has a new game that uses game design space in expressive, subversive ways.

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:21 pm Thu, Oct 1, 2015
    1902 trading cards imagine the 'Women of the Future'

    Way back in 1902, a French manufacturer released a set of trading cards designed by artist Albert Bergeret that imagined the "women of the future." The cards envisioned women stepping… Read the rest of the article: 1902 trading cards imagine the 'Women of the Future'

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:49 pm Wed, Sep 30, 2015
    The new face of Pokémon is butts

    Historically, the Pokémon franchise has focused its merchandising efforts on the parts of Pokémon characters that were not their butts. But that's about to change, thanks to a new wave… Read the rest of the article: The new face of Pokémon is butts

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  • Laura Hudson
    1:11 pm Tue, Sep 29, 2015
    The geometric horror game Euclidean is Lovecraft levels of scary

    Tentacles made of cubes reach for you from within the watery abyss. "You're not supposed to be here," an unseen being informs you as you descend into the first level… Read the rest of the article: The geometric horror game Euclidean is Lovecraft levels of scary

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  • Laura Hudson
    11:57 am Tue, Sep 29, 2015
    The Mercator Puzzle reminds you how deceptive maps can be

    The Earth is round, and maps are flat. While we have may mapped nearly every inch of our world, figuring out how to translate that information from three dimensions to… Read the rest of the article: The Mercator Puzzle reminds you how deceptive maps can be

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  • Laura Hudson
    11:28 am Mon, Sep 28, 2015
    This puzzle game makes me want to learn about opera

    I've never watched an opera before, but the new iOS game Magic Flute by Mozart makes me want to.

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  • Laura Hudson
    11:35 am Fri, Sep 25, 2015
    Listen to the new Portal song by Jonathan Coulton

    While delightful on their own terms, the icing on the cake of the Portal games has always been the songs by Jonathan Coulton that play over their end credits.

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