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  • Leigh Alexander
    1:29 pm Mon, Oct 5, 2015
    Mess up the practice space while the band keeps playing

    At first you're just knocking over, like, cups and tables and band members and stuff, but then you start to play with the sliders.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    12:51 pm Mon, Oct 5, 2015
    Celebrate the classic Breakout, and then rethink the term 'empathy games'

    This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us a takedown on 'empathy games' from one of the field's most well-known independent designers, as well as a unique collection of… Read the rest of the article: Celebrate the classic Breakout, and then rethink the term 'empathy games'

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  • Leigh Alexander
    2:03 pm Wed, Sep 30, 2015
    Wheels of Aurelia, a girls' road trip, may be my favorite game of 2015 so far

    The driving hardly matters at all. I love Lella. If I'd known her I would have gone to France with her in a heartbeat.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    3:22 am Mon, Sep 28, 2015
    This Metal Gear Solid spoof is heavy on the 'snake'

    Imagine you are playing the classic arcade game Snake against your friend, except the "snakes" are Solid Snake and Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid. Well, your imagination is real.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    2:55 am Mon, Sep 28, 2015
    For disabled players, Twitch offers community and a second income

    A new profile in The Guardian gets to know young women with ability challenges who are earning money and raising charitable funds via online streaming service Twitch.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    9:25 am Fri, Sep 25, 2015
    Have a Twin Peaks dance-off with a sobbing Leland Palmer

    Hey, Twin Peaks fans: Do you want to play Dance Dance Revolution with Leland Palmer? Yeah you do.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    8:27 am Fri, Sep 25, 2015
    No gay nudity on Twitch, but blue alien boobs are fine

    The popular streaming service has a disappointing set of standards for its sexual content policy.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:33 am Thu, Sep 24, 2015
    Help this girl band survive its breakup, a trippy forest, and a wall of Harry Potters

    An intensely strange, wonderful and substantial MSPaint adventure lets you switch among friends to solve offbeat puzzles.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    4:09 am Thu, Sep 24, 2015
    Try a stylish, Saul Bass-inspired two-player duel

    I don't know what the name means, but NotDOBA looks stylish.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    3:27 am Thu, Sep 24, 2015
    I can't stop touching this minimalist, mysterious puzzle game

    Simogo's new game is a clever, compelling puzzle about splitting squares. But the crafty, beloved studio might have more in store…

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:32 am Tue, Sep 22, 2015
    Hoofed mammal-themed fighting games are big business

    It's not just ponies for some fans.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:11 am Tue, Sep 22, 2015
    Enjoy Glasgow through a broken radio

    Imagine what it would be like to tune around your city as an audiovisual landscape.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:13 am Tue, Sep 22, 2015
    A special board game about nonverbal communication

    And Then We Held Hands is a special tabletop game about silently negotiating the emotions of a partnership. Thanks to Kickstarter, fans can own a proper physical version for the first time.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    4:12 am Mon, Sep 21, 2015
    Video tapes with strange names transport you to abstract realms

    A pile of forgotten cassettes create art and mystery.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    3:17 am Mon, Sep 21, 2015
    There's more to this homoerotic showering game than meets the eye

    If you get the gym class schedule right, you might have a fraught but exciting encounter with a hunk who wears sunglasses in the shower.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:21 am Fri, Sep 18, 2015
    Panoramical will change the way you conceive of sound

    More than a "music visualizer", the widely-anticipated new project by David Kanaga and Fernando Ramallo is practically synesthetic, treating sound as a place to explore and customize

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:43 am Thu, Sep 17, 2015
    This adventure game about a strange clown is absolutely brilliant

    I've fallen for this strange new adventure game about a horrible, balloon-like clown with a gaping maw full of yellow teeth.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    3:28 am Wed, Sep 16, 2015
    Can games learn from 19th century art?

    Independent game developers are doing interesting things in smaller games by using the creative techniques and tools of some "higher-end", bigger game-makers, just like avant-garde impressionists once did.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    9:24 am Tue, Sep 15, 2015
    We Know The Devil is a horror game about being the odd friend out

    We Know The Devil is a visual novel about three friends consigned to a miserable Christian summer camp. Eventually they'll have to confront the Devil, which might just be allegorical for how, in a group of three, two will always bond a little more closely.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    3:39 am Tue, Sep 15, 2015
    Someone re-did the whole True Detective intro in Grand Theft Auto V

    Sometimes the creative things people do with games are even more interesting than the games themselves.

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