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  • Laura Hudson
    6:46 am Mon, Aug 3, 2015
    Offworld Monday Reflection: Living card games, white whales and digital bonsai trees

    Monday returns with yet another a satellite transmission from Offworld, highlighting our favorite features and games from last week, as well as the stories throughout the galaxy that got us talking

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  • Laura Hudson
    3:00 am Mon, Aug 3, 2015
    Women take a place at the pinball table

    What happens when female players slam tilt their way into the bright, loud world of pinball?

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:14 pm Fri, Jul 31, 2015
    Sisyphus is very excited about cheevos

    Pushing a boulder up a hill for eternity has never felt so rewarding.

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  • Laura Hudson
    5:49 am Thu, Jul 30, 2015
    Invisibility Blues: Help open up the conversation about race in games

    A new video series hopes to explore role of people of color in games, from the best characterizations to the worst, and everything in between.

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:31 pm Wed, Jul 29, 2015
    Touching someone's heart isn't easy in Tough Love Machine

    Figuring out how to connect with another human being is often a puzzle.

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  • Laura Hudson
    6:18 am Tue, Jul 28, 2015
    Swipe right to discover a new indie game

    With over 16,000 indie games available on Itch.io, it can be hard to figure out what to play. But thanks to the Randomizer, finding a new game is as easy as swiping right.

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  • Laura Hudson
    9:13 am Mon, Jul 27, 2015
    Terrorize the seas as the white whale of Moby Dick, but with lasers

    Did you enjoy Ecco the Dolphin, but wish it had allowed you to commit mass murder? Then Pequod might be for you.

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:51 am Wed, Jul 22, 2015
    Stephen Colbert made a text adventure about getting locked in a closet

    Stephen Colbert's new Late Show gig doesn't start till September, so what's he doing in the meantime? According to this game released by his official website, the answer is "stumbling into a closet."

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  • Laura Hudson
    1:54 pm Tue, Jul 21, 2015
    Stay Woke Bot helps activists explain racism to Twitter randos

    Because talking about race on Twitter is an exhausting proposition, unless you are a robot.

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:39 am Mon, Jul 20, 2015
    Mobile game of the week: Little Inferno

    Sometimes you just want the world to burn, especially when it's ending. In Little Inferno, a wintry apocalypse has engulfed the Earth, and you're sitting by a fireplace throwing everything in the flames.

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  • Laura Hudson
    11:28 am Fri, Jul 17, 2015
    I put some Doom in your Doom so you can Doom while you Doom

    Fans of recursion rejoice: someone has put a playable version of Doom… inside Doom.

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:37 am Fri, Jul 17, 2015
    An Asian-American gunslinger takes aim in this magical western comic

    Growing up as an Asian-American kid in Texas, Greg Pak loved Westerns and fantasy stories. He's bringing both to Kingsway Law, the tale of a Chinese gunslinger in an Old West overrun with magic.

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:20 pm Thu, Jul 16, 2015
    If David Lynch made a platform game, it might look like Strawberry Cubes

    Enter a red-hued glitch dream where you explore your grandmother's house to find seeds, skeletons, frogs and songs by Patsy Cline.

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  • Laura Hudson
    1:49 pm Wed, Jul 15, 2015
    Shower Game will not make you feel clean at all

    Ever pooped in the shower? If you play Shower Game, you probably will.

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  • Laura Hudson
    4:55 am Wed, Jul 15, 2015
    Her Story: a compelling murder mystery game with a tragic flaw

    This mystery where you solve a crime with a search engine is brilliantly made—but it has one big problem.

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  • Laura Hudson
    3:58 am Mon, Jul 13, 2015
    10 Comic-Con announcements that are actually about comics

    The sun has set on San Diego, and we've put together the most interesting news that fans of comics — you know, the books — shouldn't miss.

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  • Laura Hudson
    2:43 am Mon, Jul 13, 2015
    Offworld Monday roundup: Nostalgia, magical girls and cybersex

    The Offworld staff had a lot to say about nostalgia last week, particularly around the announcement that a remake of the fan-favorite 1997 game Final Fantasy VII is on the way.

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:25 pm Fri, Jul 10, 2015
    Read The Joy of Cybersex, an online sex guide circa 1993

    Enjoy this early internet guide to the subversive world of "erotic disks" and "teledildonics."

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  • Laura Hudson
    8:16 am Wed, Jul 8, 2015
    How to make a drinking game

    Sure, we all know what a drinking game is: a game designed to get you trashed. But what does it look like from the perspective of a game designer? How does it work?

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  • Laura Hudson
    1:46 pm Tue, Jul 7, 2015
    The International Love Ultimatum inspires DIY games about relationships

    Mainstream video games tend to focus on mechanics of destruction, with far less attention paid to the mechanics of building romances, friendships and other relationships.

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