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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TONIGHT: Your Chance to Beat Beat JTRO at Dance Dance Revolution
The contemporary cinema classic The FP lives on in the hearts of all who have seen it—and tonight at Ground Kontrol, the love we all feel for the film is about to get a little more physical. Because the star, co-writer, and co-director of The FP, Jason Trost, will be taking part in a Dance […]
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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 […]
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I’m Getting Pretty Stressed About This Myst-Related Kickstarter
Myst, guys, seriously. Cyan, Inc—the people who made Myst—are kickstarting a new mystery adventure game. Their Kickstarter for Obduction —sort of a spiritual sequel to Myst—ends this Saturday, and they still have just too far to go for my comfort they got funded just in time! HUZZAH! YAY! I am excited about this because, guys—Myst. […]