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  • Laura Hudson
    12:33 pm Wed, Sep 9, 2015
    Save the universe (and your relationship) by shooting aliens

    Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a game about love, about cooperation, and possibly about what it means to save a relationship that's falling apart.

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  • Laura Hudson
    11:04 am Tue, Sep 8, 2015
    Nihilisa Frank finds the existential darkness in the art of Lisa Frank

    The rainbow panda knows what you have always known deep down: We are all going to die.

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:41 am Tue, Sep 8, 2015
    The Game of Thrones cartographer explains how to draw maps

    If you've ever wanted to make your own map—either of the real world or a fantasy world of your creation—these tips are essential.

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:09 am Tue, Sep 8, 2015
    It's not always easy being a trans lady at the queer zine fair

    The interactive fiction game Zine Fair Lady asks you to step into the shoes of a trans woman who's headed for an LGBTQ zine fair—a space that, in theory, should be inclusive and welcoming.

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  • Laura Hudson
    8:43 am Tue, Sep 8, 2015
    Escape a shipwreck by skipping stones across the water

    Rescue yourself from a desert island in a challenging puzzle game full of rocks, lilypads, and the soothing sounds of the surf.

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  • Laura Hudson
    5:05 am Mon, Sep 7, 2015
    A '70s sci-fi game about a disembodied head exploring a space station

    Set in a world where the rest of humanity has uploaded their minds to robotic bodies, you play as the last vestige of meatspace, a disembodied human head roaming a space station in a rocket-powered helmet.

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:40 am Fri, Sep 4, 2015
    Scary Swedish bedtime stories for awful children

    The creators of the game Year Walk have prepared a special treat for us: a free e-book of Swedish scary stories to tell in the dark.

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  • Laura Hudson
    4:09 am Fri, Sep 4, 2015
    Flywrench will kill you until you like it

    Flywrench often feels a bit like a zen koan: a game that is both punishing and forgiving, overstimulating and patient, where you die constantly, yet never really stop playing.

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  • Laura Hudson
    1:26 pm Thu, Sep 3, 2015
    Raccoon tries to 'save' brother from refreshing swim in pool

    Waylon the raccoon sure would feel a lot better if his brother Willie were back on dry land.

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:11 am Thu, Sep 3, 2015
    Old Sierra adventure games transformed into lovely glitch screens

    Behold the familiar forests, beaches and old houses you used to wander transformed into oddly beautiful glitches, or maybe just the face of a woman you once knew, but whose name you can't remember, half-dissolved by time.

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:22 am Wed, Sep 2, 2015
    What Reddit could have looked like in the 1980s Reddit is always fun

    Remember back in the day, when you could dial in to Reddit on your 2400 baud modem and read AMAs by President Reagan and Madonna?

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:00 am Wed, Sep 2, 2015
    The tiniest kitten loves the tiniest chick

    This teeny, tiny kitten grooming a chick is the stuff dreams are made of.

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  • Laura Hudson
    8:18 am Wed, Sep 2, 2015
    Run a Renaissance art guild in this Leonardo da Vinci simulator

    If you've ever dreamed of being—or perhaps of micromanaging—the great artists of the Italian Renaissance, then it's time to play Painters Guild.

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  • Laura Hudson
    8:17 am Wed, Sep 2, 2015
    Ultimate Chicken Horse is like Mario Maker for asshole animals

    Sure, Mario Maker looks like a lot of fun. But will it let you and your friends turn into horses and raccoons and cut each other up with buzzsaws?

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:34 am Tue, Sep 1, 2015
    This Grand Theft Auto V wildlife documentary is surprisingly good

    Delve into the lives of the digital cougars, deer, rabbits, hawks, coyotes and cows of GTA V in this strangely realistic nature documentary.

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  • Laura Hudson
    4:00 am Mon, Aug 31, 2015
    The millennials are all right, and so are their sex games

    The sneering condescension and pearl-clutching panic about young people's relationship to sex and technology willfully misses the fruits of an impressive creative movement.

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:28 am Thu, Aug 27, 2015
    Ride this surreal subway line to wonderful places

    Subway Adventure is a game where you might find yourself saying, "wait, I think I need to transfer to the green line in order to get to the moon."

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  • Laura Hudson
    11:34 am Wed, Aug 26, 2015
    Level cities with your strange squid song

    Imagine that one day a giant squid materialized in the sky over a city, singing the song that will end the world. Imagine that you are that squid.

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  • Laura Hudson
    3:20 am Wed, Aug 26, 2015
    Everyday Misanthrope, the game about making people miserable

    Every interaction with another human being is just another opportunity to make the people around you feel more like you do: absolutely miserable.

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  • Laura Hudson
    3:11 am Wed, Aug 26, 2015
    Battle your friends in a game inspired by 1980s space anime

    The opening screen of Capsule Force feels ripped from the intro to an anime series: a series of stars pinging out a catchy melody in the sky like a series… Read the rest of the article: Battle your friends in a game inspired by 1980s space anime

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