In Octodad, you play an octopus who pretends to be a person. And you can’t let anyone find out.
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Back to Adventure
Does the great Broken Age herald a return of the adventure game genre?
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Finally, Videogames For Cats!
Oh yes, America, it’s time. The high-stakes real-time challenge: Can you knock everything in this house over before your captors stop your mirthful rebellion? That’s right, it’s a housecat simulation game. Somebody get Courtney over here. CATLATERAL DAMAGE The perfect game. Catlateral Damage (for web, Windows, OS X and Linux) is only in alpha right […]
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Gone Home wins Polygon’s game of the year!
GONE HOME Let’s hear it for the home team! Big props to the Portland-based Fullbright Company: their story exploration game Gone Home (we wrote about it, remember?) earned Polygon’s Game of the Year award! It also ranked #3 in USA Today and was named won best Independent and best PC game at the Spike VGX […]
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The Future of Virtual Reality Is Here, and It’s Dolphins Taking a Quiz
Today we’re going to talk about the future of gaming: specifically virtual reality, which is embodied these days at gaming conferences and twitter feeds by the Oculus Rift: a VR headset that makes you look like this: OCULUS RIFT A hip look for hip people. Actually, the commercial version will be sleeker, but that doesn’t […]
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Time to Stop Working and Play a Ke$ha Text Adventure Game!
via Browser games have come a long way since the days of throwing penguins across flash-animated landscapes when you’re supposed to be doing “word processing” exercises… those were the days, right, folks? I spent most of my browser-game time last year absolutely losing my shit over Candy Box 2, the surprisingly complex ASCii-based candy-farming and […]
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I Tried to Play League of Legends, You’re Welcome
League of Legends is “the most played PC game” in North America and Europe, apparently—which sounds like a stupid claim, until you hear the really impressive number: As of October of 2013, the number of daily active players is 12 million. 12 MILLION. My goodness. I’d never played this game (though it was released in […]
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Scott Manley Is the Only Person I Care About In Videogames Right Now
Happy winter, everyone! Have you also given up on doing anything at all? Wonderful. Here’s what I’m up to: while wrapped in my winter cocoon, I have recently delved into the wonderful world of “Let’s Play” videos—that is, watching someone play a videogame so you don’t have to. I had thought this was a boring […]
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Now It’s My Turn to Rave About the New Zelda
I’m visiting my parents right now and it’s ruined my ability to talk like a normal person, so I’m going to write my review as if I am talking to my mother. Please forgive me. Hi mom! What am I doing on my new little videogame computer? I’m playing a video game called A Link […]
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Mini-review: Redshirt
My friends were very excited to tell me about the game Redshirt, a new game for Mac & PC by Positech, for reasons that are obvious to anyone who knows me: the game combines the plot of Star Trek with the interface of Facebook. If only there was a soundtrack by Weird Al and voice […]
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LAN Party Collects Food for Charity
Some Portland gamers are getting a big buzz this holiday season because of this image making the rounds of Reddit and George Takei’s Facebook page: PDXLAN: Good work, gamers. PDXLAN is a thrice-yearly LAN party, where gamers bring in their desktop computers and other gaming devices and play games in the same room with each […]
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NPR’s Nina Totenberg Has Casual Disdain For the PlayStation 4
The PS4! It’s out, everybody! Did you stand in line? No? Me neither. The new console went on sale Friday and, according to Sony, sold over a million on its first day. One of those was sold to this annoying person who microwaved it, and another to an annoying person who smashed it in front […]